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SpyDaniel
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2006 22:32
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I have a AMD Mother board and I want to buy a new hard drive. I have two hard drives now but it only comes to 40 Gig, plus one of them wont work on its own, I need to dual connect them for it to work.

So I need to know what hard drives are supported by AMD motherboards. Because the one that doesnt work comes up with an error at boot, saying its missing a file, NTLDR I think.

So whatsa good hard drive to get?
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John Y
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2006 23:14
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AMD don't make motherboards, other manufacturers use different pairings of chipsets along with their own design.

Therefore, all IDE harddrives are compatible, and SATA ones if you have a new motherboard.

Quote: "Because the one that doesnt work comes up with an error at boot, saying its missing a file, NTLDR I think"


You need to do a repair/new installation of Windows 2000/XP.


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EddieB
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2006 23:41
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Im running on SATA now... It's a big improvement from teh 'ol ide...
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Phaelax
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2006 00:33
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Quote: "I need to dual connect them for it to work"


that doesn't make any sense. any harddrive can run alone. John pretty much has the answer. A repair will usually put back that ntldr file which randomly gets corrupted occationally.

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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2006 01:13
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Get an IDE cable (if your using IDE drives), that has a master socket and two slave ones. That way, you could have 4 hard drives in your machine (if you've got enough sockets on the motherboard to take 2 cables).

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SpyDaniel
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2006 01:52
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Ive reinstalled XP that many times and always come back the the same error at boot up. I may have to buy XP again. Can you buy XP Core, as in it has no updates which get installed and you cant uninstall?
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DVader
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Just a thought it could be a memory problem. I've seen that error on a few systems, a faulty stick of ram. Another silly thing to cause this can be a dodgy CD or drive, basically anything that can cause any corruption when installing xp. If you were ok and then suddenly you got the error on loadup then ram is quite likely or even a faulty hard drive.

Oh and if your hard drive won't work on it's own, check it's jumper settings. You want master or cable select to be selected. Master being preferable.
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SpyDaniel
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Ive sat there in the past for hours, changing the jumper setting, taking hardware out, testing, all to come to "NTLDR Missing, please restart".

I can say the hard drive worked on its own with my last mother board, but when it broke and I bought a new one, the hard drive I had running wouldnt work. But it is working with a dual link, as I am on it right now.

The smaller drive, which is like 6 years old works fine on its own, but because its so old and buggered, it only has 9 GIG left out of 20 Gig.
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TopGunSF
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2006 04:15
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Quote: "[quote]"I need to dual connect them for it to work""


that doesn't make any sense. any harddrive can run alone. John pretty much has the answer. A repair will usually put back that ntldr file which randomly gets corrupted occationally.[/quote]

Chances are the drive of your that wont work unless it is slaved to the other is that way because you have it jumpered to slave. Try changing the jumper settings to master and see how it works. If you want a new drive though, any IDE drive should work well for you.

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Zaibatsu
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Quote: "I have two hard drives now but it only comes to 40 Gig"



How small do they make hard-drives in England?!?!?!? mine started out with 80gb, and I added a 250gb hd!

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Phaelax
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2006 05:57
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Quote: "mine started out with 80gb"


he never said how old the computer was. My harddrive was only 1.2GB, before that I had no harddrive as it all ran off floppys and a 512kb ram board.

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SpyDaniel
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Quote: "Try changing the jumper settings to master and see how it works"


What do you think I did while I sat on the floor for hours? I changed the jumpers about 20 times, so its not the setting, its some thing else.

Zaibatsu, the hard drive which is 19 Gig was from 1998 I think, and we make the same hard drives as you Americans, I could get a 300 GIG drive but it would cost me around £200 or more.
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Zaibatsu
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2006 17:11
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Quote: "1998"


ok, I just wasn't sure, as (and I hope nobodey takes offense to this) I have found the English to do rather odd things...

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