NTLDR is missing! I NEED HELP!

[playkid]

yes it says press any key to boot from cd .......
for like 3 seconds and then disappears
you have to press any key to boot from the CD

I dont see "press any key to boot from cd..." i just goes straight to the error screen

 

[Shady]

that's weird !
are you sure this is the right CD ?
and are you sure you set the first boot to CD-Drive !

 

[playkid]

that's weird !
are you sure this is the right CD ?
and are you sure you set the first boot to CD-Drive !

Yes i tried the cd, on my laptop and it pop ups windows xp installation.

Boot device priority

ATAPI CD-ROM
+Removable Devices
+Hard Drive
Network Boot

Thats how i set up my bios...

so?

 

[Shady]

do you have another computer to try it on ?
because i think the problem is in the CD itself

 

[playkid]

do you have another computer to try it on ?
because i think the problem is in the CD itself

the windows xp cd is fine, its working on my laptop. =(

 

[Shady]

then it's the CD drive ! i guess
try to plug in another CD drive !
that's all i can think of at the moment !

 

[playkid]

i only have 1 cd drive, lmao.. this is frustrating

 

[playkid]

any other ideas?

 

[Shady]

that's it for now
sorry dude

 

[apj101]

ok playkid you have to have done something wrong in the process, what you are trying to achieve at this point it for the computer to boot from the cd, and never even look at the hard drive. In fact take the hard drive out of the machine completely! and it should still boot from the cd just fine

 

[playkid]

ok playkid you have to have done something wrong in the process, what you are trying to achieve at this point it for the computer to boot from the cd, and never even look at the hard drive. In fact take the hard drive out of the machine completely! and it should still boot from the cd just fine

oh by the way i am using a copied version of the cd..will that affect?

 

[playkid]

Okay i have floppy boot disk, now this is what i see

A:\>

What do i press?? i want to fresh install xp

 

[playkid]

guys?

 

[kof2000]

1. boot from cd and install xp.
or
2. boot with win98 startupdisk, make partitions 2 of them. make 2nd one fat32 and copy content of cd there and run the winnt.exe from within that partitions i386 folder, is faster than installing from cd and u dont need the 6 disks if ur cd is not bootable.

 

[playkid]

i have floppy. i cant boot from cd.

i see

A:\>

but i dont know what command to press