So, I have an SATA HDD that I found in my dad's busted computer. The HDD still works fine as we hooked it up to another computer through a IDE and SATA to USB cable. I want to make the new SATA HDD my master on my main computer, but the computer uses IDE HDDs (Which have crashed). I purchased an SATA PCI Host Card and installed it into the pc. However, when I hooked everything up and booted it, I receive an error stating: NTLDR is missing Press Crtl+Alt+Del to restart.
My pc is an older Sony Vaio PCV-RX650 with stock motherboard.
The SATA HDD is a Maxtor 6L100M0 - 100 GB HDD
When I use my recovery discs to try and install Windows on the computer, I always get an error message saying:
Cannot find hard drive
Confirm if hard drive is correctly connected.
I've plugged in the HDD to the PCI card and the PCI card to the slot. There is power to the HDD.
The start up screen looks like this:
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Award Medallion BIOS v6.0
Copyright (C) 1984-2001. Award Software, Inc.
ACPI BIOS Revision 1002
Award Plug and Play Bios Extension v1.0A
Initialize Plug and Play Cards...
PNP Init Completed
Detecting Primary Slave ... None
Detecting Secondary Slave ... Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-11D
Primary master drive fails
Press F1 to continue, F2 to enter SETUP
12/18/2001-1845 -P4B266LM
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I press F1 (since F2 just takes me to the setup screen) and up pops:
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Sil 3152A SATALink BIOS Version 4.3.79
Copyright (C) 1997-2006 Silicone Image Inc.
1 Maxtor 6L100M0 93 GB
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The next screen is as follows:
Sec. Master Disk : CD-ROM, VDMA 2
Sec. Slave Disk : CD-ROM, VDMA 2
<BIOS:> BIOS update data incorrect. CPUID=00000F29.
PCI device listing.....
Bus No. Device No. Func No. Vender ID Device ID Device Class IRQ
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0 31 1 8086 244B IDE Controller 14/15
0 31 2 8086 2442 Serial bus controller 9
0 31 4 8086 2444 Serial bus controller 9
0 31 5 8086 2445 Multimedia device 10
1 0 0 10DE 0322 Display controller 11
2 9 0 1106 3038 Serial bus controller 9
2 9 1 1106 3038 Serial bus controller 9
2 9 2 1106 3104 Serial bus controller 9
2 10 0 1186 1300 Network controller 9
2 11 0 1095 3512 Mass storage controller 9
2 13 0 10EC 8139 Network controller 9
2 14 0 104C 8020 Serial bus controller 3
NTLDR is missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
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so yea, now that I've just wasted half an hour typing that directly from the other monitor, can anyone diagnose a solution? Like maybe how to boot from the driver cd that came with the Serial ATA PCI Host Card? Or whatnot.
Anyways, thanks everyone for reading and whatnot.
