rhettje Posted February 8, 2005 Posted February 8, 2005 Good Day. I just bought this board 3 weel ago and installation went fine. I installed Win XP to the SATA drive using non raid installation. Then when everything is stable and booting up I attached my old 120 WD IDE drive. After booting up and going into the bios I noticed that both drives are configured as maters and the 120 WD is the priority. I changed the boot priority to the SATA. Warm boots are ok but the problem is the cold boot. The next day when I turn on the pc it always tries to boot thru the120 WD IDE so getting that NTDLR missing message. I keep going back to the bios just to change the priority then everthing is fine. It keeps changing the next day. Please help me fix this I'm getting frustrated of going back to the bios just to fix the boot priority. Thanks, Rhettje Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
THunDA Posted February 8, 2005 Posted February 8, 2005 I noticed that both drives are configured as maters and the 120 WD is the priority. Sorry but what do you mean by "maters" ? Have you tried to load optimized defaults in bios ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhettje Posted February 8, 2005 Posted February 8, 2005 Oh I mean "master". Both drives where recognized as masters. I also tried to use the jumper on the 120WD for slave. Then the bios recognized the dive as slave but I it is still booting on the 120WD which dosen't have any OS. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
THunDA Posted February 8, 2005 Posted February 8, 2005 Have you tried to load optimized defaults in bios ? ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpuz Posted February 8, 2005 Posted February 8, 2005 Please answer thunda's question. Did you load optimized defaults in bios? Also, I see you have dvd and a ide drive. Could you describe how you have the cables set up/ plugged into the motherboard? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhettje Posted February 8, 2005 Posted February 8, 2005 Yes. I have optimized defaults loaded in the bios. The DVD drive is connected to the IDE 1 port jumpers set to master and the 120 WD is connected to IDE port 2 no jumpers set . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGone Posted February 8, 2005 Posted February 8, 2005 @rhettje. I have a hard drive that is formatted Extended/Logical and has nO active partitions on it nor any 'system' boot files and it never got in the way of my SATA booting drive with all bioses from shipping "thru" the 10/15 which had either NVRAID ROM 4.52 or 4.66. The 1/28 bios that I think is still on he beta site (still beta I think?) has the NVRAID ROM 4.52 on it and I have not tested that bios in the configuration you describe. Sounds like you have gone to Hard Drive booting order and used page up and down to make the SATA drive move to the top of the list. Then 'booting' order of computer should be floppy if you have and use one as I do; then hard drive; and 3rd choice nothing and boot other devices is "disabled". For my setup and my all EXTENDED/LOGICAL third drive never tries to boot ahead of my raid array I use now nor did that 'extra' drive try to boot first with a setup like yours. For the last 5 years of continuous raid running I have found to make the spare drive extended/logical cures all my problems with that drive trying to boot as an extended/logical drive is not an active drive. RGone... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhettje Posted February 8, 2005 Posted February 8, 2005 RGone, Yes I have gone thru the order of useing page up and down to make the SATA drive move to the top of the list. I'll try what you suggested by using floppy as the primary boot then hard drive. If problem still persists I'll try to re-install/re-format everything tonight and use the RAID configuration instead of Non-raid. It seems that it might run better thur a RAID configuration. I'll keep you posted with my progress. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGone Posted February 8, 2005 Posted February 8, 2005 @rhettje. Man I am not nor did I intend to suggest you try and run that single drive as if it were raided. I meant only to show that my raid nor my single sata drive configuration gave me any problems after I used third party software to Partition my spare drive to 'only' an extended/logical drive. Windows does not try to boot an extended/logical drive. And I think it is partially the fault of windows that you are faced with the problem you are experiencing, because windows thinks the drive is bootable. I could be wrong but my spare drives are always formatted and partitioned to extended/logical with Partition Magic and I never experience your problem. RGone... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
THunDA Posted February 8, 2005 Posted February 8, 2005 What you could try to do when you format the sata drive and install windows is DISCONNECT the IDE drive from the system all together.. Ive had problems in the past where that kinda screws up the windows install.. not sure if this will help but its worth a try.. Now ive been using partition magic since Ive seen Rgone say he uses it.. and he's right it does much better job then windows does in partitioning and all.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhettje Posted February 8, 2005 Posted February 8, 2005 I'll still try and re-install windows on the SATA drive. I'll try to aquire a copy of Partition Magic for my re-installation. But I notice that each time I go to the bios after cold boot. The bios keeps making the 120 WD IDE drive as the boot priority and keeps my SATA as secondary even before windows starts. When I change the boot priority warm boot is ok but not cold boot. When I do cold boots the bios keeps my 120WD as priority and SATA secondary. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpm3k Posted February 8, 2005 Posted February 8, 2005 What you could try to do when you format the sata drive and install windows is DISCONNECT the IDE drive from the system all together.. Ive had problems in the past where that kinda screws up the windows install.. I had to unplug my IDE drives when trying to install on my sata drive as well. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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