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Nick_Leo

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so i try and boot off my one hard drive and i get an error saying could not load NTLDR press ctl+alt+del. I put my old hdd in and then got access to the one with the error and formatted it and then i still get the error. Also when i put the windows cd in i get cd could not boot NTLDR could not be found. Whats going on?
 
recently had the same problem on my laptop...scared the crap out of me.... it's bad RAM run memtest86 on your sticks of RAM to find out which one is the bad one (assuming you are using two sticks) the bad one and then take it out and get it replaced...

it's weird because you get the same problem even trying to reinstall windows which was the first thing I tried thinking I just corrupted me OS after pulling out the bad stick it worked just fine and MEMtest86 did have errors on that stick.
 
If you have a USB memory stick plugged in, remove it.
Often a PC will think the USB stick is the boot drive.
You can change the boot order in the CMOS if it is that.
 
pull a RAM stick anyway and if it still does it try the other stick or if you have some spare RAM use it
 
well i got it working with my old hdd and i reformated my regular one and i still get the problem. Im going to try and install windows to it while im on windows. So i think its a hdd problem as the ram is working agaian.
 
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