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? -- the transmonde laptop information page

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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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Meredith

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Date Posted: 21:19:33 02/04/01 Sun
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

Hey everybody,

I tried this and it doesn't work. I copied all three files into the root directory of my new drive by booting it up as an external drive. But when I tried to use it as my internal drive it didn't work. I thought it might be because it had the wrong letter for booting. So then I tried booting up with my windows 2000 disks, repairing the installation and trying to reboot. Still said, "NTLDR is missing." I tried repairing it twice, then re-installing Windows 2000. Still didn't work. Now I am wiping the new drive clean and will re-install Windows 2000 entirely. I may give up soon.

Ug. Windows. Microsoft.

>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
>

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