help needed to install windows

shadowscotland · 12 Jan 2007 at 08:01

Need a bit of help

Cant load windows on a new SATA drive.
NTLDR is missing - is first error message.
tried via windows boot disk
gets to promt A:\
what's next?

Edit: or should I say how do i get the sata drivers (three floppy provided by Abit) onto the machine - not used dos in a very long time and have forgotten all the commands

should have stuck with IDE much less hassle :rolleyes:

shadowscotland · 12 Jan 2007 at 10:37

Do you mean the floppy boot disk? Don't think a saw that.
If you mean the cd boot disk, I remember a SATA driver prompt the last time I did a fresh install but I can't get that far

shadowscotland · 12 Jan 2007 at 11:22

Plunk13 said:
(make sure you have the CD drive first in the boot priority list in BIOS)

Doh! should have checked that, was set to Floppy/HDD/CD - and thanks for confirming the F6 prompt was on the CD (thought it was)

Edit: @Ice On Fire - Windows XP pro (inc sp2)

shadowscotland · 12 Jan 2007 at 12:02

thanks all, can't beleave I missed that

- sleep deprivation not helpful when configing PC's (or anything else for that matter) but more awake now.

I'll add to this thread if I've any other problems (hopefully not if it's just a driver install)

shadowscotland · 15 Jan 2007 at 15:29

All sorted/updated and PC running smoothly, thanks to all thoses that helped.

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