IDE fried, SATA will not boot

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I have a XP setup with primary IDE as storage disk and a SATA drive for
boot/XP. The IDE has fried and died on me. I now cannot boot the pc, it
says it cannot find boot record.

Could it that the SATA drive has gone also? Or is it that the SATA
cannot boot without the IDE in place?
 
Nick said:
I have a XP setup with primary IDE as storage disk and a SATA
drive for boot/XP. The IDE has fried and died on me. I now cannot
boot the pc, it says it cannot find boot record.

Could it that the SATA drive has gone also? Or is it that the SATA
cannot boot without the IDE in place?
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I'm curious about how you know the IDE drive is fried if you don't
know whether the SATA drive is fried. Just curious.

I suspect someone else has a better answer, but I would insert a
boot CD and see what it sees.
 
I know because the IDE drive had been misbehaving for the last few
weeks. So I was expecting it to die anytime. However, there was nothing
to suspect on the SATA drive.
 
Nick said:
I know because the IDE drive had been misbehaving for the last few
weeks. So I was expecting it to die anytime. However, there was
nothing to suspect on the SATA drive.
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I'm not convinced you know whether the IDE drive is in fact dead.
Hopefully you did back up any important files since the drive was
"misbehaving".

If I had any important files on the SATA drive, I would find a boot
CD that will help transfer files/partitions to a CD or whatever. You
don't want to be doing new things with your hard drives if you don't
have copies of important files. Then again, you're supposed to have
copies anyway.

Good luck.
 
The SATA drive was working with the IDE drive installed, so it should
keep working even if the IDE drive has died.

Why didn't you try disconnecting the IDE drive to answer your own
question?

If that doesn't work, if you have another PC running XP, try creating a
BartPE boot CD and then try booting the system with only the SATA drive
installed.

Eric,
PC Buyer Beware!
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/
 
I have a XP setup with primary IDE as storage disk and a SATA drive for
boot/XP. The IDE has fried and died on me. I now cannot boot the pc, it
says it cannot find boot record.

Could it that the SATA drive has gone also? Or is it that the SATA
cannot boot without the IDE in place?
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The latter. It's very likely that the Windows boot files are on the
IDE drive.
 
Nick said:
Could it that the SATA drive has gone also? Or is it that the SATA
cannot boot without the IDE in place?
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Was the IDE drive C:? If so, that;s the drive XP was booting from.
There's no operating system on the SATA drive.
 
Nick said:
I have a XP setup with primary IDE as storage disk and a SATA drive for
boot/XP. The IDE has fried and died on me. I now cannot boot the pc, it
says it cannot find boot record.

Could it that the SATA drive has gone also? Or is it that the SATA
cannot boot without the IDE in place?
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How did you install the system? It sounds like your boot record was on the IDE.
 
I opened things up and it emerged that I had an primary IDE, a secondar
IDE and a SATA data disk. It was the secondary IDE that had fried but
it was stopping the primary disk from booting. I disconnected the
secondary IDE (the faulty one) and the primary started working ok and
booted into windows.

Thanks for the help.
 
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