kumarkumar Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 (edited) I have two HDs in my computer. One is a PATA and one a SATA.PATA is conneted to the DVD drive and is configured as Master. I want to to install WinXP in the SATA and keep the PATA for data.Now the problem is, during WinXP installation it marks the PATA drive as "C" and SATA as "D" (in the screen where you choose where to install WinXP)So now when I try to install it on SATA (marked as "D").........after installation is over and I try to restart the computer it never boots and gives the popular ntldr missing error........cause Windows was not installed in "C".I tried to change the drive letter of PATA in Windows from Disk Management but it won't let me do so becoz it is marked as a System drive.What do I do? How do I make the SATA as "C" and PATA as "D"?Pls help(PS: I looked in the BIOS for any setting but couldn't find anything suitable. I also tried changing the PATA to Slave but that didn't help me either) Edited December 3, 2007 by kumarkumar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitroshift Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Your D needs to be a primary partition and set as active too. I use Acronis Disk Director for such operations, but PartitionMagic can do it too, as well as other programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kumarkumar Posted December 3, 2007 Author Share Posted December 3, 2007 SATA (marked as "D") is set as active and is a primary partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kumarkumar Posted December 9, 2007 Author Share Posted December 9, 2007 Any help guys? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponch Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 PS: I looked in the BIOS for any setting but couldn't find anything suitable.Did you set the SATA before PATA in the boot order ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kumarkumar Posted December 12, 2007 Author Share Posted December 12, 2007 There is no option to select SATA over PATA in the boot order. The only order thats available are 1) Hard disk2) DVD Drive3) USB devices Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikep56 Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 Hi kumarkumar,I had a similar problem with a new build a few months ago. I had a SATA HD, a SATA optical drive, and a multiple card reader device, which is USB. With all the hardware connected and running an nLite Windows XP installation, the USB devices were enumerated first as drives C:-I:, then the SATA HD was enumerated as J:, and the optical drive was K:. To get Windows XP to install on the HD and have the HD enumerated as C:, all I needed to do was disconnect the multiple card reader device from the USB port and re-install Windows XP. WXP installed on the properly enumerated HD, and the optical drive became D:. After reinstalling WXP I reconnected the card reader and all is now good, with the card readers becoming devices E:-K:.So, to make a long story short (oops I guess it's too late for that now), disconnect the PATA HD, reinstall WXP, and then reconnect the PATA drive. You should be good to go.Hope this helps.Regards,Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesurfer Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 yes, disconnect pata, install on sata, then reconnect pata. should work as mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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