RedTail
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Greetings,
It seems that my beloved Maxtor hard drive has finally passed away. With that being said, I bought a new SATA Raptor drive. Unfortunately, my motherboard did not have a sata plug so I purchased a serial to sata. This worked fine. I was able to put the driver disc in, and the boot up process is seeing my new drive. Then a error message appears. BOOT MGR is missing...please hit control alt del...which I do and of course the same message appears. I have a full version of vista, a full version of xp but it seems that when I hit a keyboard button to boot from one these disc...its a no go.....Im confused. Should I make a floppy xp boot disc? It seems that all the forums for this error message wants me to go into DOS to manipulate. I cant get into Dos? Is this because my hard drive is not partioned correctly? Im confused.
RedTail
P.s I already went into the bios setup and set the boot sequence to my cd rom...vista or xp still wont load.
It seems that my beloved Maxtor hard drive has finally passed away. With that being said, I bought a new SATA Raptor drive. Unfortunately, my motherboard did not have a sata plug so I purchased a serial to sata. This worked fine. I was able to put the driver disc in, and the boot up process is seeing my new drive. Then a error message appears. BOOT MGR is missing...please hit control alt del...which I do and of course the same message appears. I have a full version of vista, a full version of xp but it seems that when I hit a keyboard button to boot from one these disc...its a no go.....Im confused. Should I make a floppy xp boot disc? It seems that all the forums for this error message wants me to go into DOS to manipulate. I cant get into Dos? Is this because my hard drive is not partioned correctly? Im confused.
RedTail
P.s I already went into the bios setup and set the boot sequence to my cd rom...vista or xp still wont load.