Wtf?!?!?

[alvino]

I have just finished building my computer (YAY!!!), and when i turned it on for the first time, i booted off of my hard drive driver disk and i installed my hard drive and set my BIOS. After that it restarted, and this time it says:

NTLDR or NLTDR (i forgot, sorry)
Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart

and i do that then it keeps saying that everytime. is there something i missed? or should i reinstall my hard drive?

NOTE: All my comp specs are in the signature space below, just in case you're wondering....

Many Thanks!!!!

 

[Gary Graefen]

Did you partiacian your harddrive? and then format

 

[Emanon247]

yup, partition, then format.. that'll fix her..

 

[alvino]

but i cant boot from the data lifeguard tools (which is a western digital, as it says in my signature) which came with my hard drive, and which im supposed to boot from...... but after i restart it it keeps going too that NLTDR thing, so i dont get a chance to do it... and even if i put the disk in it still wont autoread it or if i push some buttons it wont read it.....

 

[alvino]

maybe i shouldve went with Ultra ATA/133 (regular IDE interface) instead...... cuz SATA has been a pain in the butt......

 

[airiox]

yep sata is hard to work around.

 

[Dynamix]

Check there is not a floppy disk in the drive

 

[Novartic_]

have you conected your h/d cabe the right way around? and also have you put it in IDE1 on the m/b

 

[entity512]

Switch IDE off in the bios. Set the SATA to boot and floppy and CD boot devices before SATA, that will load the floppy also.

 

[alvino]

well i found on the bios that there are only 2 options: RAID and Operate IDE mode, so the only one i can do is raid, cuz im not using IDE, right?
and i also formatted, and partitioned it too and it still does that NLTDR thing.....