NTDLR missing after Drive Clone in Windows 7

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Barry Campbell
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I'm having a problem after I cloned my C: drive and tried to boot back into Windows 7. After cloning the disk, Windows shut down. I disconnected the original drive, and connected the cloned drive with the SATA cable from the original. When Windows 7 booted, I got an error, NTDLR is missing. I tried going back to the original drive, same problem. I can reboot, press F11, select the disk I want to boot and Windows will boot fine...on both drives. I don't want to press F11 each time I reboot my machine. How do I force windows 7 to see my original boot drive and boot into that?

Sat, 05/29/2010 - 22:31
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MudCrab
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Windows 7 doesn't use NTLDR. Do you have another internal drive? If so, check the booting order of the drives in the BIOS. It's fairly common for the BIOS to change the boot order when drive changes/connections are made.

Sun, 05/30/2010 - 05:22