NTLDR Missing

[abhong]

thanks y'all.
i got it running on a different CD RW...
i think maybe the cabling was bad and also, i noticed the CDRW was connected to IDE-2

i tried at IDE-1 and it seems to work.

thanks for all help...

 

[sillious]

Originally posted by: OSX

Originally posted by: sillious

If the installation CD is copied maybe it's not bootable anymore. In that installation CD you have files to make boot floopies (need 6 I think), but since your floppy isn't being recognized you can create a boot CD through Nero (if you run Nero). I never did, but maybe you can copy all your installation files on to the working computer then use a software that can copy those files while making that CD a bootable one. Again, I only am familiar with Nero.

* for situation like this, a floppy drive is very handy *

If you could somehow get to DOS prompt, try copying the NTLDR file from your working computer's root directory to the installed computer's root.

There's just the whole problem of needing several hundred floppies to put XP on.

Or there is xpboot.exe (search google) which need only one floppy disk, does the job of 6 floppies.

 

[JimPhelpsMI]

Hi, I've read somewhere that you can make a dummy NTLDR, no extension, file. No data necessary (maybe a couple of spaces and a carriage return), just the file and Windoz will quit yelling about it. It seemed to work for me once. Good Luck, Jim