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Hard drives C D E and IDEs

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Re: Hard drives C D E and IDEs

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May 16th, 2008
Okay, that is one of the messages in ntldr, and because you reset the boot order to IDE-1 it is from the ntldr on C: drive; basically, it is saying that it is looking for XP but could not find or read the XP files on the E: drive. It managed earlier.
I have assumed a couple of things, and I should not have. Is your cd drive on the IDE-0 [primary] controller? That is fine, it should be the slave, the new hard drive the master. Is the old drive with C: master on the secondary controller? That is the configuration I wrote the boot.ini file for. But, please tell me the drives/controllers configuration that you have.
And did you get the cd drive working? Just wondering if the cabling connections are seated well because earlier the system booted just fine with IDE-1 as first boot device, and we have not altered anything on that.
To check could I have a copy of the boot.ini file on C: please, if you get the thing working? I do suspect connections are a problem atm.
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