Boot Problem

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SNeaKY_BuGGeR

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Hi guys an girls weird problem.

I bought some SATA HDD's connected em up and was left with a spare IDE cable because my SATA ODD's made the IDE cable redundant. So I thought hey I have a spare 250Gig IDE HD sitting around doing nothing I will plug that in. as soon as I did I got an error on boot which said windows in missing the file "ntoskrnl.exe" please re-install the file and reboot system.

Weird because the HDD is totally fresh and I formatted it yesterday. as soon as I unplug the drive the comp whizzes into life no problem.

I think that it is a problem with the fact that the IDE cable is the master boot line for the PC. How do I correct this in the BIOS?

Specs for my system are in my sig

Thanks guys you have been aweesome in the past.
 
In the BIOS you should set the boot order for the various drives - I suspect the thing is looking at the PATA drive first?
 
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