i have a problem, im running 2 hard drives and i formated my slave drive 40gb, and when i tried installing windows xp on it it tells me NTLDR is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+ Del to restart, and there is no other option for me to go to except turn off my computer or restart it, im running win xp, 2.4ghz 512 mb pc 3200 ram with 9800 pro video card, thanx for any help in advance, all help really appriciated
I have the same problem. I tried to fix it but I couldn't and I got scared cause I messed with Boot.ini file and it wouldn't load at all. I ended up installing winxp again creating 2 window XP's on the same hard drive... But I got into safemode with winxp (2) and I was able to change the boot.ini file again. My fix was this. When I booted up Bios I pressed F8, picked my Hard Drive and for some reason bypassed NTLDR and it loaded fine. You can try that and see if it works. If not this guy gave a good link to see if you wanna try to fix it yourself. Heres the link. http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm hope that helps.
Also another thing you should do is Create a System Restore Checkpoint so in case you mess up you can restore right back to the original. Thats what I did and I was able to uninstall that 2nd version of WinXP and deleted the folder which was Windows.0
If yeah have your windows disk all you have to do is load up the disc and then load up the recovery console. Then type in FIXBOOT and enter. Ya done. Have fun!
vspede, i thought i recognized that link for the missing ntldr. i posted it on your fsb 2000 thread last night.
thanx for all the hlep guys, but im still abit confused, i use that hd as a secondary drive, i can format it if i want but when i try to boot the windows xp cd so it has its own windows and its set as a master hd it tells me immediatly that the NTLDR is missing and wants me to restart, so im not sure what im suppose to do about that, sorry for the confusions
sry guys, been pretty busy these couple last day, but i was able to install xp prefessional on the hard drive but when ever i go to boot the hard drive by its self in master settings, it tells me its still missing the ntldr, i did go on the links above and am still confused on what i should put on the harddrive and all that other stuff
okay i re/read the part on what to boot first, but i already have the windows on the hard drive, so which do i set first to boot the cd/rom or the harddrive?
Usually when you get that message it means the ARC path in boot.ini is pointing to the wrong drive or partition You should have a boot.ini that looks something like this though the / switches may be slightly different [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect Here's what they mean: multi(0) is always 0 on an IDE system, it's the number of the IDE adapter. Even if you have 2 IDE adapters, nearly every BIOS assigns it a single number so you always use 0 disk(0) is always 0 if using multi, it can be different if using a SCSI drive rdisk(0)this is the physical disk number starting with 0. So if you have Windows installed on your 2nd hard drive (not partition) this number would be 1 instead. If it is on the 1st physical hard drive then it is 0 partiton(1) this is the first partition on the hard drive, if you have it installed on a different partition this number can change. Here 0 means unformatted space so it would not be used Those parameters in boot.ini tells the OS which drive and partiton ntldr and ntdetect.com can be found. An incorrect entry here is the most common cause of the ntldr not found message Here is how to edit it http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=289022
