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drpp62 · 03-17-2008, 12:14 PM

I am not sure if I blew my drive or what, but I have two sata WD drives, one is a 500gb and the other a 300gb. The motherboard is a brand new XFX 780I. It has been working fine, but yesterday, Vista Home 32 bit locked up. The only thing I could do was perform a manual reboot.

When it came back on, it gave me a "could not find ntrdl, press control alt delete to reboot" command. I did so, and clicked on the bios as this had happened b/f when the 300gb drive had been designated as the boot drive. When this happened then, I changed the order and selected it to boot from the 500gb drive first and all was well. This time though, when I went into bios, the 500gb drive is no longer listed. I tried the search for hard drive option, but still no hard drive. As a result, I can no longer boot the computer as the Vista Windows is on the 500gb drive. I can't even reinstall Vista and start over, as the drive doesn't even appear as being there.

Did this cold reboot blow the drive? Any suggestions. Thanks.

Edit: By the way, I did not look inside yet as I had to go to work. I know it could be as simple as a cable coming undone or something, but it just seems odd that all was working just fine and then after the cold reboot, it stopped. Even if a drive is corrupt or damaged, wouldn't it still be detected in the bios, even if it doens't work?

03-17-2008, 12:14 PM	#1 (permalink)
drpp62 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 4 OS: Vista Home 32 Bit	[SOLVED] Primary Sata Drive No Longer in Bios/CP Wont Boot I am not sure if I blew my drive or what, but I have two sata WD drives, one is a 500gb and the other a 300gb. The motherboard is a brand new XFX 780I. It has been working fine, but yesterday, Vista Home 32 bit locked up. The only thing I could do was perform a manual reboot. When it came back on, it gave me a "could not find ntrdl, press control alt delete to reboot" command. I did so, and clicked on the bios as this had happened b/f when the 300gb drive had been designated as the boot drive. When this happened then, I changed the order and selected it to boot from the 500gb drive first and all was well. This time though, when I went into bios, the 500gb drive is no longer listed. I tried the search for hard drive option, but still no hard drive. As a result, I can no longer boot the computer as the Vista Windows is on the 500gb drive. I can't even reinstall Vista and start over, as the drive doesn't even appear as being there. Did this cold reboot blow the drive? Any suggestions. Thanks. Edit: By the way, I did not look inside yet as I had to go to work. I know it could be as simple as a cable coming undone or something, but it just seems odd that all was working just fine and then after the cold reboot, it stopped. Even if a drive is corrupt or damaged, wouldn't it still be detected in the bios, even if it doens't work? Last edited by drpp62; 03-17-2008 at 12:20 PM.