BOOTMNRG is missing and NTLDR is missing errors

[principe]

Hola,
How do I fix a BOOTMNRG is missing? or NTLDR is missing? I have tried F8, F2 & F12 to boot from CD. started on Recovery Console, did "fixboot" the bootmngr is missing error got replaced by NTLDR error....I have windows xp os and windows 8 os...it gives me a CD not valid...I have both license os's..????
Thank You,
IPrincipe

[Murf]

Welcome to CTH

So you are dual booting Windows 8 and Windows XP? Was it working OK then you got this error? Or did this happen after trying to load say Windows 8 and XP was already on the machine?

[principe]

I'm not doing a dual booting. I replaced the hard drive and wanted to put windows 8 but because of the boot system i had to go back to xp to get into bios....i fixed the two errors of bootmngr missing and NTLDR missing. Now im getting a windows system32 missing error.

[Murf]

Trying to understand, relaced the hard drive, you tried to install Windows 8, it would not so you then installed Windows XP. Did you reformat the drive after trying Windows 8 before installing XP:

Exactly which windows/system32 error are you getting? Is it telling you that windows/system32 is missing or is it referencing a particular file?

When you :fixed the NTLDR missing how did you do that? Did you copy the following two files to the c:;

ntldr
ntdetect.com

If you had a busted Windows 8 installation and did not wipe those files off then installed XP you would get all kinds of errors.