here goes...

I have an ASROCK board with AMD 2800+, 1.0GB ram and 2 HD 120GB master and 80 GB slave, cracked XP pro sp3 (i think).

I'm trying to fix a friends PC and ended up screwing up mine...

i had decided to plug his 160 GB slave instead of mine in order to format it. I plugged it in the right place the jumper was on good, but it didn't WORK. so i decided to replug my own slave, now i get the NTLDR is missing message. i tried booting from CD to repair win xp, didn't work.

what i noticed is that when i enter BIOS the IDE 0 info is WD1600, when it should be WD1200JB. I cant change it, i tried to LOAD default in bios, i tried with only the master plugged, i took out the battery from the board. Bios still identifies IDE0 as WD1600.

I've tried so many things i don't even remember them all and their results. one thing i know is that none of the things i did worked.

can someone point me in the right direction??Remove the battery longer than 10 minutes...
Double check the drive(s) jumpers and cable positions.....
Replace the IDE cable with a brand new one...Yes thats really the right way...
DO it & confirmQuote from: funnyman_123 on May 13, 2010, 09:52:13 PM

Yes thats really the right way...
DO it & confirm

1. ... i removed the battery overnight, put it back in and for a strange reason i didn't loose the time and date.... but while replacing the battery i noticed the clrCMOS solder points, tried that instead and it worked...
2. but why did plugging a HD screw everything up?? i must have done that 100 times and it always worked, why wasn't i able to do it with that one??...