ide power connection

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I screwed up and moved the file c:\windows\system32\winlogon.exe to a different folder. Windows would'nt boot. So I removed the hard drive, connected it to another pc, and moved winlogon.exe back to the system32 folder and swapped the drive back to my pc. I kept getting the message "NTLDR is missing". I took a look inside my pc and apparently I had swapped the power connectors on my two hard drives. I swapped them back and all was well.

My question is, why would swapping power connections prevent a hard drive from being detected by windows? I'm baffled. Both drives were detected in the bios.
 
You must have swapped the ide connectors. The power connectors don't matter.
 
i mean the power connectors (multi colored wires connections from psu). the ide cables were'nt swapped. i've never had an issue like this before.
 
Strange. My only guess is that before you either didn't have the plug in all the way, or you have an intermittent connection.
 
tarnationsauce2 said:
Strange. My only guess is that before you either didn't have the plug in all the way, or you have an intermittent connection.
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I thought the same thing but the bios detected both hard drives. Windows only detected the slave.
 
My guess here is that you have a coincidence, and not so much a cause and effect situation:)
 
xstatic said:
My guess here is that you have a coincidence, and not so much a cause and effect situation:)
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you're probably right. i'm probably overlooking something. just because i'm the dumbass that i am, i'm going to swap them again and see what happens. :D
 
i swapped them again and all was well. it must have been a coincidence. now i really feel like a dumbass for not knowing what happened.
 
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