NTLDR Error: Slave Drive Installation Problem

Hi,

I am having an issue with installing my HDD the one that came out of a Maxtor One Touch III external hard drive case. I remember when I connected the 320 GB HDD the computer recognized it as my H Drive

The HDD is 320 GB. After I reinstalled windows on the C Drive, the computer finally does not detect and does not boot from the C Drive when the slave drive is connected to the IDE port. I was thinking about forgetting connecting the IDE port and just get a USB interface to access the drive soon, but I want to go to my files for something, but I cannot access the slave drive cause the computer will not recognize it. And when I keep the 320 GB connected to the "Blue" IDE port the PC gives me this MS-DOS messege "NTLDR missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del" when I do that it just reboots with the same error. When I disconnect it
Windows starts to boot up normally.

What should I do to get the slave drive recognized back on my PC?

Any solutions?

Adam E.

 

Hi Adam,

It is hard subject to explain, try to add a little more "stepwise" recounts of what happened (not that I am any guru )

You removed the HDD from a One-Touch Maxtor external drive and installed it as Slave on your motherboard's IDE connection, right?

I don't know the One-Touch models, but I expect that you installed software on your Windows system to use it. Look in Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs for the One-Touch (Maxtor) program. I expect the Maxtor software is looking for a USB connection to the drive and the drive might have a "non-standard" system of interacting with computer. The software might be made for working as a boot recovery system, not only as a system of backing up in Windows.

You can try uninstalling the One-Touch software. Whether that will make the drive "appear ", I don't know. I have worked on a different Maxtor external drive.

Try searching at Maxtor for information. Ask them on their Support website.

You don't say why you took the drive out of the external case.

Matt

 

I Took The HDD Out Cause Of This

The USB interface that you connect to the USB port does not work. The power supply died and most of my files that I have collected are on that
HDD drive. Maxtor is terrible is making external HDD enclosures and the power supply died on, but the Hard Disk inside the enclosure works very well. The C and D partitions are located on a 120 GB SATA drive. I think I might get a SATA interface and connect a new SATA 500 GB HDD in the PC. The IDE connectors are huge and make a mess inside the case. The SATA connectors are small and easy to connect without getting a headache.

Adam E.

 

I take it that you are connecting it to the same port as the Windows HDD. Did you change the jumper to the Slave position?

Matt