Help I think I seriously messed up

[Dreambeats]

Ok heres the deal. I was running a Gateway 400 mhz wit an 8.4 gb HDD....on XP.....well i got tired of that stupid "Running out of space" message and i decided to Upgrade to a Western Digital 120 gb drive. I installed it....or i tried to install it but i got that NTLRD missing error. SO i installed it as a slave and used my old drive as a master so that i could copy the files over. (NTLRD NTDETECT .....etc) Ne ways i copyed the files and when i go to restart my computer loads the bios and then stops.....Its not frozen it just wont load the hard drives.....I can access the bios and it registers both HDDs but it doent **** load XP. Oh and get this i cant boot from the floppy or CDrom. WTF is going on.....help please......

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[thekingofpain]

ooopsie


Um---
Did you check things out closely before proceeding so boldly?

[RicheemxX]

well to start I'm surprised that computer would support a 120 gig drive in fact I doubt it will/does

and then second even though your just swapping over a new drive I never really like the idea of just doing a copy I believe in the "fresh install theory" especially from an older drive to a brand new one

the other question I would have is you said it detects both in bios but doesn't boot to windows have you tried removing one of the drives {ie just boot to the old one or just the new one}

[MDS]

you can't just "copy" windows over to the other drive. It has to be installed unless you ghost it. BTW does you mobo support that drive?

BTW you may want to edit your post a bit
"I can access the bios and it registers both HDDs but it doent f***n load XP"

[John Prophet]

He probably just needs an ata 133 controller card to see the whole drive....not sure about the ntldr issue

[Dreambeats]

OK it was late last night and i was Fustrated.....ok i know my MB supports the drive because i had it working.....Even if i use the new drive or the old drive alone it still doent load. And know that i cant copy XP over to another drive i wasnt going to do that. I was gonna do a fresh install and just put some files from the old drive on to the new one...then chuck it out the window......

[Vagabond]

would clearing the CMOS help him??