Re: Re-install XP
- From: "Learner" <geoffb41NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 17:55:46 +1000
Ok Mark, I'll take your advice on this one - I now see what you are getting
at. I'll completely reformat the whole drive and start all over again.
Thanks.
"Mark L. Ferguson" <MarkLFerguson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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I don't see why your setup disk would ask for a file on a drive it cannot
see
to partition. Your problem probably stems from the existance of a 'logical
drive', nominally D: in the new config. Setup seems to want to repartition
C:, and can't because there is a D:. I would copy old E: (new D:) drive to
old C:, the one you removed, then remove both partitions from the new
drive,
create a new primary, with unpartitioned space left for a new D:, and run
setup with just that drive in.
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Mark L. Ferguson
"Learner" wrote:
Sorry Mark, I don't quite follow you on this one. The second hard drive
(which I am trying to use on its own) has a recently formatted partition
on
it which I wish to place a clean install of Windows. But the BIOS does
not
allow me to carryout such a clean install (the error message "missing
NTLDR"
keeps coming up). I have tried my windows disk in both my optical drives
with the same result. If I use this hard drive (as a slave) along with my
primary hard drive with windows on it there is no problem, I can read the
data (E) and also see the formatted partition (D).
I'm stuck.
"Mark L. Ferguson" <MarkLFerguson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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You have a missing boot file, it was on C:. and the system was on D: at
some
point.
There are a few utilities you can try from Recovery Console. (Run CD
setup,
start setup, choose 'r' for repair), You will enter the RC prompt and
use
these commands
FixMBR
FixBoot
BootCFG /rebuild
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Mark L. Ferguson
"Learner" wrote:
I currently have two IDE hardrives on my system, one being the 'C'
drive
and
the other drive partitioned into 'D' and 'E'. 'D' is currently empty
(recently formatted) and 'E' holding some data files.
When using the second hard drive as the primary drive (other drive
disconnected) to do a clean install of XP Pro on the partition 'D'
(and
setting the BIOS to boot from CD), instead of this happening all I get
is
a
message, after the BIOS has confirmed to boot from the CD, "NTDLR
missing".
I would of thought that I should get the ususal windows setup program.
What happened?
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