New (EMPTY)Hard Drive Wants To Boot First

  • Thread starter Thread starter Cari \(MS-MVP\)
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Hello All,

When I leave my new Iomega HD plugged in at startup, I get an error
message, "NTLDR is missing Press CTRL+ALT+DEL" I have to unplug the
External HD and restart to recognize the internal HD and then my
machine boots properly. After that I plug in my external HD and all is
well. Will I have to do this everytime I boot up? Seems silly to me.
Iomega tech support sucks so I turn to evertone here. Any Ideas?

mikey
 
Cari said:
Change the boot drive order in the BIOS settings.
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Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Client - Printing & Imaging
www.coribright.com/Windows


"mikeyluke" (e-mail address removed) wrote in message

Hello All,

When I leave my new Iomega HD plugged in at startup, I get an error
message, "NTLDR is missing Press CTRL+ALT+DEL" I have to unplug the
External HD and restart to recognize the internal HD and then my
machine boots properly. After that I plug in my external HD and all
is
well. Will I have to do this everytime I boot up? Seems silly to me.
Iomega tech support sucks so I turn to evertone here. Any Ideas?

mikey


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mikeyluke[/QUOTE


Cari, Might I ask you how? :)

mikey
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Cari said:
Change the boot drive order in the BIOS settings.
--
Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Client - Printing & Imaging
www.coribright.com/Windows


"mikeyluke" (e-mail address removed) wrote in message

Hello All,

When I leave my new Iomega HD plugged in at startup, I get an error
message, "NTLDR is missing Press CTRL+ALT+DEL" I have to unplug the
External HD and restart to recognize the internal HD and then my
machine boots properly. After that I plug in my external HD and all
is
well. Will I have to do this everytime I boot up? Seems silly to me.
Iomega tech support sucks so I turn to evertone here. Any Ideas?

mikey
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Cari, Thanks for the advise. I tried to change the boot order in BIOS
last night. No luck. Today I tried and viola! Thanks for the advice.

BTW, should I have reformatted from fat 32 to ntfs?

thanks!!

mikey
 
mikeyluke said:
BTW. when I received the HD it was formatted in FAT 32, I changed
it to NTFS because my C drive is formatted as such. In addition
,under the Computer Mgmnt. tab The new drive is recognized as K
drive with no fault tolerence. All seems well there too.
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BTW, FAT 32 can be read/write with Linux, Mack, Windows 95/98 etc...
 
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