I just recently assembled my first build and today I was planning on installing my OS. However after booting to bios i get and error message. "NTLDR is missing" I have an ide cd drive, and an ide controller in which my hard drives (2x) are. One master one slave. I need to know how to fix this error any help would be great.
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Need help with first build
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whats your boot priority set to?
Go into the Bios and find the boot priority and set it so that the CD Drive is first. Then continue on and install windows, it should work as long as you boot into the CD Drive first.
The NTLDR issue is that you have a incomplete install, or corrupted install, of Windows on the hard drive you are booting to.
Unless in fact you are booting from the CD and the install gives you this error. - your Windows CD is corrupt. The NTLDR error also appears when trying to run the Windows Install from a CD. I've gotten it before (trying to create my own install CD off of the i386 folder on my hard drive, without using nLite...)
Are you trying to install Windows XP Home/Pro from an OEM CD, Retail CD or LVM CD?
Did you make the install CD yourself, borrow it from a friend, download it off of a torrent?
The NTLDR issue is that you have a incomplete install, or corrupted install, of Windows on the hard drive you are booting to.
Unless in fact you are booting from the CD and the install gives you this error. - your Windows CD is corrupt. The NTLDR error also appears when trying to run the Windows Install from a CD. I've gotten it before (trying to create my own install CD off of the i386 folder on my hard drive, without using nLite...)
Are you trying to install Windows XP Home/Pro from an OEM CD, Retail CD or LVM CD?
Did you make the install CD yourself, borrow it from a friend, download it off of a torrent?