NTLDR is Missing

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Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with XP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

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"Phil" wrote:

| Hello all,
| I've been upgrading a computer for my daughter, taking the harddrive, nic,
| floppy from her Compaq and putting them into a new case with new motherboard
| and video. I finally got everything to power up, boot, video, everything
| doing what it should,,,,except....I get NTLDR is Missing error on start up.
| I've tried copying the ntldr aand ntdetect files without success. The drive
| is a Western Digital, formatted fat32 with XP pro sp1. I'd like to know if
| there's a way to get the drive booting into windows again, without a full
| reinstall.
| Thanks in advance for any help!!
| Phil