DWILLWY Posted December 4, 2005 Posted December 4, 2005 i got a cheap computer off a friends girls dad for $40.00 it did not have a hard drive. i was installing windows xp pro. when it restarted it told me that ntldr was missing i have had outher problem with this computer such as one ide port will read the hard drive and the outher will not. the specks on this are : compact parsio 5000 series intel celeron 667 MHz yea i know its slow but its only 4 the internet... 256 mb sd ram dvd rom drive cdrw drive 56 k modem 10/100 mb pci nic card i am trying to put xp on a 4 gig drive again i know its small.... i put the hd in my computer n xp started up where it left off on the outher one so is it something wrong with the hardware or just a glich in software. ??????????? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hushplz Posted December 5, 2005 Posted December 5, 2005 Insert the Windows XP bootable CD into the computer. When prompted to press any key to boot from the CD, press any key. Once in the Windows XP setup menu press the "R" key to repair Windows. Log into your Windows installation by pressing the "1" key and pressing enter. You will then be prompted for your administrator password, enter that password. Copy the below two files to the root directory of the primary hard disk. In the below example we are copying these files from the CD-ROM drive letter "E". This letter may be different on your computer. copy e:\i386\ntldr c:\ copy e:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\ Once both of these files have been successfully copied, remove the CD from the computer and reboot. This worked for me... when i had the problem. But once in Windows if its successful make sure you run a scandisk Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverfox Posted December 5, 2005 Posted December 5, 2005 it's usually a boot sequence problem from my experience. the cd is ready before the hard disk is or something to that effect. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWILLWY Posted December 5, 2005 Posted December 5, 2005 ok ill try a few new things and get back to u all .... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exeter_acres Posted December 5, 2005 Posted December 5, 2005 i use to get that error when overclocking.. If I clocked too high, I would get that exact error....turn the speed back down and all was ok... in that instance, it obviously meant that the system couldn't handle the settings... so it may be a bad system... and with those specs, I wouldn't bother with XP...I would get a copy of Win98 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hushplz Posted December 5, 2005 Posted December 5, 2005 and with those specs, I wouldn't bother with XP...I would get a copy of Win98 590583[/snapback] or a copy of Linux Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWILLWY Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 i found out that the problem was a bad hd after re installing windows a few times i ran hd tune and the hd failed 4 test and had 33 problems on the error scan... guess ill find a new hd Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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