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Another missing ntldr

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by cobe43 Jan 17, 2005 last reply Jan 19, 2005

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Building new system.
New HD,Mb,Ram
Used CD,CDRW (working)
Bios recognized all drives and Maxtor software formatted disk.
When I boot, missing ntldr error message.
Boot sequence = floppy,cd,hdd. xp pro cd in drive.
Although Bios recognized and logged all drives it almost seems like the boot sequence to start loading xp does not see them.
Any suggestions?

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by poettone Jan 17, 2005

I would turn off all options to boot from anything other than the cd drive..

If when you boot up you still can't load from the cd, then you could have a bad disk? Is it an origianl XP disk or a copy?

Also is your cd drive a bootable cd drive, or does it met the El Torito standard for boot drives?

Not sure but it sounds like you are using all new equiptment, cd-drive, hdd etc so you should be ok there.

I would try the cd in another known good machine and see if the cd boots..

Good Luck

by cobe43 Jan 17, 2005

It is a new xp disk.

by ozi eagle Jan 17, 2005

Hi,
This error message usually occurs when a floppy is in the floppy drive.

by cobe43 Jan 17, 2005

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by cobe43 Jan 17, 2005

no floppy in the drive.

by blackcurrant Jan 17, 2005

Can you tell us how you have installed or are trying to install XP? Does your system have more than one hard drive?

by diskaus Jan 17, 2005

I have had this problem a couple of times , from memory it relates to the MBR as you have said you formatted using the Maxtor disk, I think there is a utiility that will "install your HDD" I think this puts the MBR on the disk for you, ( it has been a while since I have used a maxtor utility disk) I hope this helps you.