couldn't find NTLDR

[mrkid85]

Okay, you may be thinking this is going to be a similar NTLDR post. Trust me, it isn't.

I have an HP Pavilion ZT1130 Laptop that I was going to do traditionally reformat. Since there is no floppy drive I popped my XP Pro CD and changed BIOS to boot to CD to reformat the XP Home OS, I received the "couldn't find NTLDR" error.

So, I stuck my "KILL DISK" CD in to delete the partitions that way, assuming it would do the trick, and when I rebooted to the XP CD again, I received the same error.

So I stuck my bootable FDISK CD in and tried the "FDISK /MBR" trick, because I read that my MBR was probably corrupt. Well, no luck there either.

I now have a laptop with no OS and what I believe is a corrupt MBR, and an NTLDR message that is haunting me at night.

Any suggestions??

 

[Dngrsone]

Is it a problem with your CD, perhaps?

 

[alanuofm]

make sure your copy of xp pro is bootable. try it in another computer.

 

[mrkid85]

I've booted from this CD numerous times. I reformatted a desktop with this CD less than 2 weeks ago.

 

[Dngrsone]

I've booted from this CD numerous times. I reformatted a desktop with this CD less than 2 weeks ago.

That doesn't preclude it from being damaged in the interim.