i had a weird problem twice before..

[Rehcamretsnef]

i had windows installed on my new Sata drive, and had a few other IDE's hooked up. And one day, i was puttin together my old comp to sell ot my brother, so i hoooked up my old HD's to transfer files and swipe. I did all that, turned on my computer. "error loading partition table" im like, FTW? took out all HD's, plugged in just the sata, and it still wouldnt boot, jsut that message of a bad Partition table (which at the time had no partitions) After pluggin in various drives, gettin boot, and switching back and forth, i was left with the ultimately bad situation of reinstalling everything on my SATA (three times over about 2 weeks)

What in the world could have caused this? it actually happened once before when i took out a hard drive, and i was scared to death that it would happen again when i plugged in my new HDD today.

Any clue what could have caused this, and how to solve the problem if it ever arises again?

 

[jancz3rt]

heya

The problem could have to do with data corruption on the HDD. The partition table should not be corrupt and remember than even 1 partition is a partition nevertheless. I would try to check the HDD with checkdisk.

JAN

 

[Rehcamretsnef]

yeah, but like, the second time this happened on my SATA, i had that same error message, and then after pluggin it in and out and booting a few times, it ended up booting up fine, with no problems. And ive been using it ever since. I dont think anything was actually corrupted in either case, just some weird error that happened when i took out a hard drive.