NTLDR boot error!

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Noelley1984 - 09 Oct 2004 10:14 GMT

I have re-formatted both ymhard drives. we used my new
windows to do so. it told us to restrt computer, and it
pops up "NTLDR is missing. press CNTRL+ALT+DEL to
reastart." but it won't take the starup dick or the
floppy. what should i do? i've been searching for the
asnwer and i can't seem to find one!!would anyone be
smarter than me?!?!

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Jeff Richards - 09 Oct 2004 21:45 GMT

What do you mean 'it won't take the starup dick or the floppy'? What
exactly are you doing? If you are trying to boot from floppy, have you gone
into BIOS setup and made sure that the floppy disk is set up as the first
boot device?

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>I have re-formatted both ymhard drives. we used my new
> windows to do so. it told us to restrt computer, and it
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> asnwer and i can't seem to find one!!would anyone be
> smarter than me?!?!

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Ron Badour - 10 Oct 2004 10:45 GMT

It sounds like you used W2K or WinXP to format the drives. What I suggest
is that you Zap the drives and then use a W98 startup floppy to partition
and format them.

Zap or Wipe freeware will remove all partition information so you can start
over fresh with FDisk. Download here:
http://www.microstorage.com/Harddriveinfo.htm#Date%20Life%20Guard

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> I have re-formatted both ymhard drives. we used my new
> windows to do so. it told us to restrt computer, and it
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> asnwer and i can't seem to find one!!would anyone be
> smarter than me?!?!

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