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Phoenix BIOS does not see SATA drive anymore

I saw part of this same question awhile ago; i have a mobo that does not see the SATA drive anymore; user called because NTLDR missing error; when i rebooted the system no HDD shows in bios on sony DVD CDRW. i then booted to XP CD and was able to copy the ntdetect.com ntldr files to the c: drive but still cannot get the system to boot or give any boot errors. does anyone know or remember the solution for the phoenix bios not seeing a 250GB SATA drive?

DTAHARLEV

can you switch it to ide emulation mode? That's usually what we do when installing Dell machines.

David Elebute

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no there is no switch like in the Dell machines; i know the drive is good as i was able backup the data on it from another machine that we have in our shop. i am changing the SATA slot that it is in and the SATA cable.
Thanks for your quick response though.

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nobus

there's a couple of misunderstandings here :
>> i have a mobo that does not see the SATA drive anymore; user called because NTLDR missing error; << this means it sees actually the disk (the ntldr error comes from the disk)
>>> i then booted to XP CD and was able to copy the ntdetect.com ntldr files to the c: drive << this also means the disk is seen; and accessable.

for the ntldr error :
Boot using the Windows XP installation disk, press R. Then type the following commands:
note : you can test after each command

FIXMBR
FIXBOOT
BOOTCFG /rebuild

David Elebute

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Thanks; we found several SATA ports seemed to be bad; we changed the SATA cable as well as ports. Thanks.