Ever since I've attached my new hard-drive (I now have two identical models, both 40GB Maxtor 5T040H4), I'm unable to boot from my CD-ROM (the two hard-drives are connected to IDE channel 1, the CD-ROM is by itself on IDE channel 2). Every time it attemps to boot from the CD-ROM I get the error message "cannot boot from CD, unable to find NTLDR." This might be helpful if I knew what NTLDR stood for... Very strangely, if I press CRTL+H while it's attempting to boot, it works fine (I found this out by pure luck... it's the only way I could re-install Windows XP).
I tried disconnecting the second hard-drive to see if it would reverse the problem, but it didn't. I also reset the CMOS and that didn't fix the problem either.
My mainboard is an ABIT KG7, and I'm not sure what kind of CD Drive I have, but under Device Manager, Windows XP calls it a "E-IDE CDROM 36X/AKW".
If you have any idea what can cause this kind of bug, or if you happen to know what "NTLDR" stands for, just reply to this message or send me an e-mail sometime, I'm very grateful for any help I can get about this.
I tried disconnecting the second hard-drive to see if it would reverse the problem, but it didn't. I also reset the CMOS and that didn't fix the problem either.
My mainboard is an ABIT KG7, and I'm not sure what kind of CD Drive I have, but under Device Manager, Windows XP calls it a "E-IDE CDROM 36X/AKW".
If you have any idea what can cause this kind of bug, or if you happen to know what "NTLDR" stands for, just reply to this message or send me an e-mail sometime, I'm very grateful for any help I can get about this.