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Old November 15th, 2005, 08:52 AM
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NTLDR MISSING After formatting
I have 2 Maxtor HD's and on one of them, I put on XP Media (that was a mistake)...i tried reinstalling XP Pro, but that didn't work, so I formatted the other drive, and tried to install xp on that one but got a missing NTLDR hit any key to restart, or you have a disk in the floppy, well I don't have a floppy so I hit the space bar and it did the same thing...I was hopeing that some one would trll me were I went wrong, and how I can get either HD to let me install SP Pro...TIA
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Old November 15th, 2005, 10:56 AM
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Welcome to CTH Hawke. See if something here helps you.
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Old November 15th, 2005, 10:57 AM
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Howdy Hawke, welcome to cth.

Are the hds set up [jumpers/cables] right? And look at the boot order in the BIOS.



edit;dang, too slow again.
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Old November 15th, 2005, 12:01 PM
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yes, everything as far as cables and bios boot order was right, but what AnnMarie sent looks like what I am going to need to do....Thank You Both
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Old November 15th, 2005, 12:08 PM
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Good luck Hawke.
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Old November 15th, 2005, 06:30 PM
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What info. is on a new hard drive, I formatted a maxtor (diamondmax), and tried to install XP Pro, but got an error message, that ntldr was missing, or there was a disk in the floppy....I don't have a floppy, and made sure that the HDD was the first boot-up in bios...tia
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Old November 15th, 2005, 06:39 PM
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Howdy:

When you booted the system with the XP cd, did you get the small message along the bottom of your screen that says something like "Press a key to boot from cd" ??

It also appears you have taken to multiple posting a problem that is already being addressed.. Due to that I will be merging them..

Murray
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Old November 15th, 2005, 07:29 PM
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there was just a black screen, with the error message, that ntldr was missing, hit any key to reboot...did that and just got same message...did say there might be a disk in the floppy, but as I don't have one of those, I knew it was something else
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