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Help............... Frustrated - 30 Oct 2005 15:41 GMT

Hard drive took a dump,installed new one.Computer goes thru start up and
reads all hardware. CD for hard drive install took, but after boot I get a
message that NTLDR is missing, press cont, alt , delete to restart. It won't
read my start up CD or do anything further. How can I correct this? Thanks
in advance.

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Richard Urban - 30 Oct 2005 17:34 GMT

Windows XP setup is a two stage process.

The *first* stage boots from the XP CD where you begin the installation.

After the first reboot, the *second* stage continues the installation from
what has already been written to the hard drive. If you had to go into the
bios to make your computer boot from the CD, after the first reboot you will
have to go back into the bios to make your computer boot from the hard
drive. Even though you are booting from the hard drive at this point, you
still have to leave the CD in the tray until the setup has been completed.
Setup still pulls from the CD occasionally, even though you have now booted
from the hard drive.

If you initially entered setup by pressing the space bar to boot from the
CD, after the first reboot - DON'T press the space bar.

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> Hard drive took a dump,installed new one.Computer goes thru start up and
> reads all hardware. CD for hard drive install took, but after boot I get a
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> Thanks
> in advance.

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John Barnett MVP - 30 Oct 2005 18:07 GMT

If you visit my website http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org Click the Win XP
Faq button and take a look at question 85. This is an illustrated guide to
installing XP.

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Help............... Frustrated - 30 Oct 2005 22:16 GMT

> If you visit my website http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org Click the Win XP
> Faq button and take a look at question 85. This is an illustrated guide to
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> It won't let me get to anything after it does it's memory test and hardware test. It states NTLDR is missing restart. When you restart it goes to same!

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Help............... Frustrated - 30 Oct 2005 22:42 GMT

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Chris - 30 Oct 2005 22:46 GMT

Do you have more than one HD?

I would try running the setup again and see if it takes, it might have just
hiccupped a bit. If it still doesn't take you may have received a bad
drive.

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Help............... Frustrated - 31 Oct 2005 01:02 GMT

the cd for the hard drive took the install and set up a troublleshooting
zone,but upon initialization, after start up tests it goes to error message!

> Hard drive took a dump,installed new one.Computer goes thru start up and
> reads all hardware. CD for hard drive install took, but after boot I get a
> message that NTLDR is missing, press cont, alt , delete to restart. It won't
> read my start up CD or do anything further. How can I correct this? Thanks
> in advance.

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