wierd hard drive behavior

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messiahnet

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I don't know if this is a hard drive question or what. Here goes:

This particular system consists of an older motherboard (acorp 7VIA71A), an Athlon 700mhz cpu, 256mb RAM, and an IBM Deskstar 40 gig hard drive (DTLA-305040). CMOS detects the hard drive as a 40 gig. When I try to install windows xp, it formats fine and copies the initial files just fine. But, when the system reboots and tries to boot from the hard drive, I get this message - "Error loading Operating System" and sometimes - "NTLDR is missing". That kind of thing. I've tried reinstalling. No dice. I have the latest BIOS update for my board. It supports the hard drive and everything. What in the world. Your input is appreciated.
 
messiahnet said:
I don't know if this is a hard drive question or what. Here goes:

This particular system consists of an older motherboard (acorp 7VIA71A), an Athlon 700mhz cpu, 256mb RAM, and an IBM Deskstar 40 gig hard drive (DTLA-305040). CMOS detects the hard drive as a 40 gig. When I try to install windows xp, it formats fine and copies the initial files just fine. But, when the system reboots and tries to boot from the hard drive, I get this message - "Error loading Operating System" and sometimes - "NTLDR is missing". That kind of thing. I've tried reinstalling. No dice. I have the latest BIOS update for my board. It supports the hard drive and everything. What in the world. Your input is appreciated.
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When your comp boots up, click on del and go into bios setting. Once there, check boot up sequence and force it to reboot with cd first... reinstall windows to fix the NTLDR issue, then reboot, click del and change boot sequence back to normal... good luck :-)
 
zeefrenchman said:
When your comp boots up, click on del and go into bios setting. Once there, check boot up sequence and force it to reboot with cd first... reinstall windows to fix the NTLDR issue, then reboot, click del and change boot sequence back to normal... good luck :-)
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or just get a boot disk :rolleyes:

www.bootdisk.com -search for your OS
 
OMG thats the same error i usd to get. the way i fized it was to install windows on another hard drive and i could finish installing windows on the missing ntldr hard drive, only now i NEED the 2nd hard drive or it still comes up with the error. which wouldnt be too bad, but the 2nd hdd is a 2GB and is very clunky. luckily it doesnt use that and boots off the 80GB
 
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elmarcorulz said:
the way i fized it was to install windows on another hard drive
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You don't need to do that....I got that error once, and it was b/c a virus had corrupted the NTLDR file, so I put that file on a floppy, and it booted just fine
 
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