Not sure if im in the right place for this but here it goes any way. i have a laptop that failed to boot so i connected the hdd to another laptop to format the drive in readiness to load a new os onto it. when i put it back into the original the laptop came back with NTLDR is missing. but that does not seem to be the only problem i have no keyboard at all so even when i put in my bootable xp disc i cannot start it i have no access to the bios. has anyone got any idea how i can get round this problem as it is quite a good laptop and i dont just want to lose it
dont actually know why it failed but that is the situation at the momemt the os was vista but im trying to reload xp but got nothing the machine is a compaq q its got hdmi and is a good machine. i cannot reload vista as i have lost the os disc but i have a win xp bootable but cant get past the ntldr is missing message. also i have no keyboard and even a usb keyboard will not work so i got nothing i can think of that will work. i,m open to any suggestions thanks for your reply anyway
WOW! It sounds like you are between a rock and a hard place. There may be ways around these problems, but they exceed my capabilities. Hopefully someone smarter then me will come along with some idea. Good luck (and Happy New Year) Dick
thanx for your time dick its muh appreciated (and hopefully someone else will be able to help) A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU and all afterdawn members
