NTLDR

[BruceMyers48]

I installed XPHome,installed fine,set up my network with my 2nd PC,everything still fine then when I went to load my Via 4in1 drivers for my MSI K7t266 pro2- ru, it installed the drivers and to me to restart. I did and I can't get back into XP because it said "NTLDR" is missing. What in the world is that. I have intalled xp a dozen times without seeing that. Help. Bruce

 

[Zlash]

NTLDR is what loads NT/2k/XP , i believe it took the place of io.sys from 9x and dos.

It is supposed to be in the root directory of the hardrive, probably hidden etc.

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[BruceMyers48]

Any Way of solving this problem with out reloading XP?. I did a clean install from a fresh format,and loaded the drivers at F6 for promise because I am us the raid side for a extra HD. I don't know if that had any thing to do with it. I guess I could load xp over xp and see what happens . If that don't work I will format. Thanks Bruce

 

[btvillarin]

Disregard the title of this MSKB article, and read...
<A HREF="http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q315261" target="_new">http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q315261</A>

I hope you haven't done anything yet...

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[Zlash]

There ya go, that article tells ya how to fix your problem if it is fixable.

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[BruceMyers48]

I tried everything on that page got the same results"NTLDR is missing ". I don't have anything loaded yet so I will reload xp after another format, this time I will load xp while it is plugged into the Primary IDE instead of the Raid IDE. It worked last time. All I have to do is load the promise drivers on xp then move the drive over to IDE #3 after building a aray. Thanks Bruce

 

[Zlash]

Bummer, let me know if the reformat works.

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[btvillarin]

Dangit...missed you again...

Sorry nothing there worked. I tried, and failed once again.

Can you get the drivers to a floppy disk, then when you're installing Windows, press F6 to use the RAID drivers off that disk? You have to press it right when it's loading the setup program (blue screen looking thing).

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[BruceMyers48]

I did as you said when I first started loading XP. I loaded the drivers for promise after hitting F6, the whole installation went fine untill my first reboot, But after moving the drive back to IDE #1 ,loading the OS,installing the promise drivers, and then moving the the drive back to IDE #3 Raid every thing is fine. The only problem I have now and had it every time is installing the network printer from my other PC. XP sure has a stange and tedious way of setting up the network. Some time it will work flawless and the next time it is like pulling teeth. The other night I had a friend that installed Norton Anti virus 2002 and after the install he lost his printer and sound(this was on win98) I took a look and the sound card took the same address as LP1.I got everything back in order, but that shows you how strange thease PC's can act. Thanks for the help and take care. Bruce

 

[btvillarin]

Wow, that's all weird, man. But, since it's working, maybe you should image your setup so it doesn't get screwed up again. Might I suggest Drive Image or Norton Ghost?

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