Hi, a while ago i bought upgrade which included a sata hd. What i did was i put my old harddrive as a slave drive(pata) and installed xp on the new sata drive. This worked fine, but when i try to remove the slave drive, the computer will not boot. The sata drive does not contain the ntldr and the 2 other files needed for booting(they are on the pata for some reason). I tried simply adding the 3 files, but my computer will still not boot. I think it is because my sata drive never got a MBR? is that possible?
what i have tried: i tried booting to the xp cd and going into the xp repair utility and there is an option "fixmbr" but the problem is that for 1, i dont know if this will fix my problem, and 2, it says it could cause loss of data and my hd is full of data i want and would require a lot of dvds to backup.
I hope someone has some insight into this.
what i have tried: i tried booting to the xp cd and going into the xp repair utility and there is an option "fixmbr" but the problem is that for 1, i dont know if this will fix my problem, and 2, it says it could cause loss of data and my hd is full of data i want and would require a lot of dvds to backup.
I hope someone has some insight into this.