| Subject: Re: NTLDR is missing ( I have installed a new harddisk on a "notebook" laptop. Now I get the message NTLDNR is missing. What is there to do about it? |
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Tim Hendricks
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Date Posted: 12:24:35 12/06/00 Wed
In reply to:
Basja
's message, "Re: NTLDR is missing ( I have installed a new harddisk on a "notebook" laptop. Now I get the message NTLDNR is missing. What is there to do about it?" on 19:26:45 07/25/00 Tue
I tried to install Windows 2000 on my computer, but I never succeeded because the install program coudn't access the boot device. This is probably because I never got Windows 98 to recognize more than 1 gig of my 20 gig Quantum drive, which is the drive I boot off of. So I gave up. But then I had this really annoying option on boot up that let you choose between Windows 2000 setup and Win98. I was living with this until yesterday, when I replace the mother-board and processor and video card. But the first time that I booted up, I got the message "NTLDR is missing" I didn't even know what NTLDR was until a few minutes ago. So even though I never installed Win2000, I now have a Win2000 boot error. God I love Microsoft!
Any help you can give me to remove this annoying vestige of a failed Win2000 install?
Any help on the hard drive, also? It sure sucks to pay $200 for 1 gig. You'd think it was 1995.
> Steps:
>
>
> Format a diskette using Windows 2000, or Windows NT
> format (this will become the boot disk); you don't
> transfer the system to this disk; it works just using
> FORMAT A:
> Copy three files onto this diskette: NTLDR (from
> Windows 2K CD), NTDETECT.COM, and BOOT.INI. You will
> need to find an NT machine or another Win2K machine to
> get these files
> Restart computer with diskette
> (you can probably boot normally, but you used Win NT
> for the files, you may have to revert to last known
> good configuration; no problem)
> Copy those 3 files to the root of your drive
> containing Windows 2K
> Here is an example of a boot.ini file (that will work)
>
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition (1)\\winnt="Win 2K
> normal"
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition (1)\\winnt="Win 2K
> [VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos
>
> > > This may be OT except it's of interest to notebook
> > > users & I discovered it using my wonderful
> Transmonde
> > > ;> ...
> > > Has anyone else noticed this? Win98 can boot even
> > when
> > > its entire partition is above the 1024 cyl
> > "boundary."
> > > Setup won't let you put it there to start with, so
> > you
> > > must install low then move hi w/ PQMagic.
> > > Being able to put Win98 part anywhere on the disk
> is
> > > handy for dual or multiple boot systems having
> only 1
> > > HD, notebooks for example. If you install W2k next,
> > > NTLDR finds the Win98, no prob. (BootMagic refuses
> &
> > I
> > > think so does linux lilo.) BTW, W2k and BeOS setups
> > > both LET you install hi, but then can't boot, go
> > fig...
> > > I am still looking for a boot manager that can
> handle
> > > the > 1024 boot partition (like NTLDR can) and also
> > > recognizes and starts linux and BeOS, and W2k and
> > > Win98.
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