Re: NTLDR is missing

Your 250 GB hard drive is by far too large to be recognized by the computer
you are attempting to install it on. You are trying to install a 250 GB hard
drive onto a system that was built in 1997. I doubt you can even find a BIOS
update that will help you with this one.
--


Harry Ohrn MS MVP [Shell\User]


"Peter Parker" <spiderman@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:nFbzg.1582$W93.1013@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am installing a brandnew EIDE hard drive (to a P-II 233Mhz MMX from
1997), Western Digital 250GB, 8MB Cache, WDCaviar. I formated with the
enclosed CDROM but I was unable to boot it from a bootable WindowXP Pro
CDROM (yes, I tested with other box and it booted), error message:

Verifying DMI Pool Data .....
NTLDR is missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

So I figure it was the BIOS (Award Module BIOS v4.51 PG)


Under STANDARD CMOS SETUP, under 'Hard Disks' I change selected 'Auto' for
'Type', and 'Large' for 'Mode', all other components "SIZE, CYLS, HEAD,
PRECOMP, LANDZ, SECTOR' automatically have '0's as values.

When I reboot from C: drive, I got the following screen:

Co-Processor: Installed Extended Memory: 97280K
CPU Clock: 233Mhz Cache Memory: 512K
Diskette Drive A: 1.44M, 3.5in Display Type : EGA/VGA
Diskette Drive B: None Serial Port(s) : 3F8 2F8
Pri. Master Disk : LRG, UDMA 5, 8455MB Parallel Port(s) : 378
Pri. Slave Disk : None EDO RAM at Row : None
Sec. Master Disk : CDROM, Mode 4 SDRAM DRAM at Row : 0 1 2
Sec. Slave Disk : None

PCI device listing ...
Bus No. Device No. Func No. Vendor ID Device
ID Device Class IRQ
0 7 1 8086
7111 IDE Controller 14
0 7 1 8086
7112 Serial Bus Controller 11
1 1 0 1023
9750 Displat Controller NA


Verifying DMI Pool Data .....

A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
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I selected 'User' for 'Type', and 'Large' remains for 'Mode', all other
components "SIZE=8452, CYLS=2047, HEAD=128, PRECOMP=65535, LANDZ=16382,
SECTOR=63' automatically set to above values.

When I reboot from C: drive, I got the following screen

Verifying DMI Pool Data .....
NTLDR is missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

Essentially I got this same screens after rebooting when I changed to
other parameters for 'Type' and 'Mode' combination
===
When I boot from a bootalbe floppy created with the enclosed Data
Lifeguard Tools CDROM, I got the error message:
"Cannot load DOS! Any key to retry"
=====
When I boot from a bootalbe floppy 'with diagnostic option' created with
the enclosed Data Lifeguard Tools CDROM, the graphics "Western Digital"
showed up on the screen then I got the error message:
Physical media Errormemory, please wait ...
Command or filename not recognized

Please remove the CD and/or Floppy Diskette
Press any key to reboot your system
=====
When I boot from a MS-DOS startup disk (made from a Windows XP Home box),
I got error msg

Verifying DMI Pool Data .....
Starting ...
The following file is missing or corrupted: COMMAND.COM
Type the name of the Command Interpreter (e.g., C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM)
A>
===

Please help!




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