You appear to have multiple disks configured with the boot record, this
could cause further problems. It would be better to start with a correctly
configured system

"Mark G." <askmefirst@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Does anyone else have any other suggestions outside of repair? Couldn't I
> just remove some of the ntldr's, boot.ini's etc and that will work?
>
> If repair is of only option, won't it reset all settings and such?
>
> Thanks much.
>
>
>
> "DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message
> news:%233BqAg2$GHA.3540@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> > Personnally I think I'd be inclined to start again, and disconnect all
> > drives other than the one you want as C and a single cd, then repair the
> > winxp installation.
> > Having first read your mobo manual to ensure you have installed the sata
> > drive to the correct sata connector and if neccessary configured the
bios,
> > and whether you need to F6 to install the sata driver from floppy during
> > the
> > proccess.
> > Once running ok connect a single drive at a time, in the order you want
> > I've no idea what you've done to get boot files on all your hd's, it may
> > be
> > neccessary to delete partitions on these
> >
> > "Mark G." <askmefirst@comcast.net> wrote in message
> > news:eAGraMz$GHA.1464@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> >> Please bare with me as I explain what I have done to this point so that
> >> hopeful I can get a clear, concise answer that solves my issue
> > immediately.
> >> I appreciate your reading this and your patience and thoughtfulness in
> >> answering it.
> >>
> >> So I reloaded windows on my computer completely whipping out the old
> >> install. No problems there and all went as planned. My computer setup
> >> consists of the following:
> >>
> >> SATA Raptor 72gig drive (primary SATA) - 2 partitions, 1 - 40gig (label
> > C:)
> >> and 1- 30gig (label D:)
> >> SATA Maxtor 250gig drive (secondary SATA) (label F:)
> >> IDE Maxtor 120gig drive (primary IDE) (label E:)
> >> IDE Maxtor 40gig drive (secondary IDE) (label G:)
> >> IDE ZIP 100 (label B:)
> >> IDE CD/DVD-RW Drive (label H:)
> >>
> >> Anyhow, I partition the Raptor drive because I like to have my OS on
the
> >> 30gig partition along with things like my anti-virus software, winzip,
> > etc..
> >> while on the 40gig drive I generally put fast games like Half Life 2 or
> >> Battlefiled 2.
> >>
> >> Anyhow, I had to mess around to get windows in the initial installation
> >> of
> >> XP Pro top recognize the Raptor SATA drive as being where I wanted
drive
> > C:
> >> to be. I also had to allocate 8mb for some reason to another IDE drive
> >> and
> >> in doing so, created an I: drive which merely consist of a boot.ini
file,
> > an
> >> ntldr file, and a ntdetect.com file. So it is relatively small, but for
> > some
> >> reason, I did not see any way around this. After getting all installed,
I
> >> did not care for the drive letters assigned to certain drives so I
> > therefore
> >> used Partition Magic 8 to re-label the drives to the drive letters of
my
> >> choice. While doing this, I was careful as to not mess with any drive
> >> that
> >> was a system or boot drive as I have had problems with that in the
past.
> >> Anyhow, all seemed fine, I patched everything with auto updates and
> >> proceeded to move forward in setting things up. In that, I finally
> >> removed
> >> my Windows XP CD to load other CD's of things I needed. Anyhow, when
> >> rebooting, I get the famed ntldr is missing error. Fine, I simple go
into
> >> recovery console to correct. In doing so, I just copied both the ntldr
> >> and
> >> the ntdetect.com files to the root of my C: drive. After rebooting
again,
> >> then I got some kind of boot.ini issue/error, but it still proceeded to
> > boot
> >> into windows just fine. And then finally, after that, I get the hal.dll
> >> error. Through all of this, I just copied the appropriate files from
the
> >> installation CD to where they were need, the first 3 to the root of C:
> >> and
> >> the hal file to sys32 under windows. With that, I then looked to see
what
> > I
> >> had where and fine that I had a boot.ini file, ntldr file, and a
> >> ntdetect.com file on 3 drives for some reason. I know why they were on
> >> the
> >> I" drive to start with as you remember, windows wanted to create that
> > space
> >> upon initial installation. They were on my C: drive because I copied
them
> >> and I think they were on my E: drive (which was unplugged during
initial
> >> installation) due to something with an old xp install, probably my
> > previous
> >> install be fore reloading.
> >>
> >> Anyhow, now, I will continue to get a hal.dll file is missing or
corrupt
> >> error unless I have the xp pro cd in my drive. If I take the CD out, I
> >> get
> >> the error and no boot, but leaving it in, and windows loads just fine.
> >>
> >> So, what I am thinking is that I need to delete some files. I mean,
with
> > my
> >> configuration, do I need to ntldr and other files on all of those
drives?
> >> What should I have where with this configuration given that I had to
> >> setup
> >> that I: drive and that I want to boot into my raptor drive which
contains
> > my
> >> OS? Seems simple, but for the likes of me, not sure what to do next and
> >> thought I would ask. Below, is what each boot.ini file says:
> >>
> >> C: drive:
> >>
> >> [boot loader]
> >> timeout=1
> >> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOW S
> >> [operating systems]
> >> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP
> >> Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
> >>
> >> E: drive:
> >>
> >> [boot loader]
> >> timeout=30
> >> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOW S
> >> [operating systems]
> >> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP
> >> Professional" /fastdetect
> >>
> >> I: drive:
> >>
> >> [boot loader]
> >> timeout=1
> >> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOW S
> >> [operating systems]
> >> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP
> >> Professional" /fastdetect
> >>
> >> Remember, my E: drive is just a data drive. I hope someone can help and
> >> thank you again for reading all of this. I just wanted to be clear and
> >> concise on the setup, what I did and all of that. Thanks much and the
> >> help
> >> is much appreciated.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>