Is a boot-corrupted SATA still usable?

theMickster · Feb 1, 2016

My SATA HDD has NTLDR Missing error. It didn't get fixed by any of the fixes. Would it still work as a non-boot drive?

There's no secondary SATA output I can use in my PC and I don't want to buy a kit to make it into a USB drive unless I know.

JaredDM · Feb 1, 2016

I don't see why not as long as the drive doesn't have any hardware issues like bad sectors (which could have caused the corruption) it should make a perfectly good second drive.

scout_03 · Feb 1, 2016

see this for the error https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/320397

theMickster · Feb 2, 2016

The trouble happened when I ran a system defrag. The PC restarted but the BIOS was set to boot from optical, then USB, then HDD. I had a non-boot flash drive plugged in and the boot-up stalled.

I tried bootrec.exe in MSDOS but no go.

okcnaline · Feb 2, 2016

In your case, it's just that the bootloader's messed up. Just use it as external drive, back up, then reinstall Windows.

theMickster · Feb 2, 2016

I ran a full format from my Windows installation disc. The HDD is now fixed.

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