NTLDR is missing. Ya What???

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Before anybody asks i have done a search for this thread, but the ones that i have read dont seem to help me.

Basically i formated my drive today. So i needed to reinstall Windows XP, so i turn on my PC, (BIOS reset) , go to the BIOS and set the CD-Drive as the primary boot drive, save and restart, wack my XP CD into the drive. Comes up saying 'Boot from CD, press any key..... blah blah blah', then it says 'NTLDR is missing'

So i have found this on the Microsoft Help and Support website

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=320397

and this from the same page as a Work Around,

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305595/

instead of getting the Bcupdate2 utility from Microsoft Product Support Services.
It is a guide on how to make a Boot Floppy Disk for XP. But i dont see how this could work seen as XP is not installed on my hard drive yet, so i wont be able to 'Start your computer by using the floppy disk, and then log on to Windows XP.' as the guide puts it.


Can anybody help me?
 
It's happened to me everytime ive set the CD as primary boot device

Set your hard drives to it instead then when the bios posts depending what motherboard you have it should say press 'this button' to enter boot menu or something along those lines and choose your CD drive. Solved my problem with it
 
fdisk your boot drive, then select boot drive to be cd/dvd then run setup from there. I think its past recovery console scenarios

I did the above on a oilrig supply boat in heavy seas and it worked a treat :)
 
You can also use the Recovery Console on the XP CD to re copy the corrupt file. Once you have booted from the CD and entered Recovery Console you will have to type the following;

copy e:\i386\ntldr c:\
copy e:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\

Be sure to replace "e" with your correct designated optical drive letter.
 
YEEEEEE HAAAAAA *Texan Style*


Ive got Windows installed up yours NTLDR file.

Im in the process of getting all my drivers, updates etc downloaded and installed, then its my games, then its music time.

Think im gonna buy a pen drive to back all my Stuff (Documents, i call it my 'Stuff') up, just incase this sort of thing happens again.


*Another Texan Style* YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
 
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