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could i try installing the XP drive then doing a XP system repair then a 7 repair if the boot.ini file is missing or would this cause more problems if so does anyone know where i could get/how to make a XP repair disk

SATA drive & 1 DVD drive working (played a DVD and can access docs on SATA) but one DVD drive is not showing up in "My Computer" :confused::confused::confused::confused: why would this be could this be the problem :confused::confused::confused::confused: have not tried XP drive yet

the system booted in to a auto repair seems to be working fine!! ;) using it to reply how do i get the other hard drives to work? :confused: could i try them one at a time and see what one is causing the problem? or is there a better way?

my computer is a custom built computer so there is no make as such but the motherboard is a Ecs Elitegroup 755-a2 rev.1 with 1 sata hard drive (slave) and 1 ide (master with 3 partitions win 8, blank, win 7) and 2 DVD drives and 1 old CD drive and 1 floppy drive. i don't know the drive letters. i tried to add another ide hard drive with win XP on it to wipe and use on my system. i had no more ide slots so i removed the old CD drive and add the (old) new hard drive in it's place as a slave. went to start up and ntldr is missing i tried to do a win 7 system repair from CD (in 1 of the DVD drives) the CD won't boot. i thought that boot from CD was disabled but cannot access BIOS to find out. can anyone help. i am willing to try anything. i do not want to spend money on this problem if i can help it. thanks