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Name: DChiHorn
Date: May 24, 2004 at 08:56:36 Pacific
Subject: boot.ini with SATA card
OS: 2000 pro
CPU/Ram: P4-1.7GHz / 512MB
Comment:

Have a home built machine. Had a 80 GB ATA HDD. About 6 months ago, bought a Maxtor Sata 150 card and WD 36 GB 10,000 rpm HD.

Plugged both into the SATA card and although neither drive shows up in BIOS, everything still seemed to run ok. With the WD drive just being the storage drive.

A couple days ago, had a power outtage while i was away from home that outlasted my UPS. When I turned my machine back on, I get the always fun, NTLDR missing error.

I have tried running a REPAIR, and also tried the reinstall Windows to c:\tempwin. But, I can't get to a point that the drive boots to see if it worked. It keeps giving me a "media failure" error. Yet, when running the reinstall, it sees the drive and the correct amount of space on the drive and everything so I figured maybe if I could just create a bootdisk with the correct boot.ini sequence and copy that over to the HD, it would solve my problem.

Can someone tell me the correct lines for boot.ini for my situation:

System drive is an 80 GB ATA drive
Storage drive is a 36 GB SATA drive
Both are connected to the Maxtor SATA150 card.


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