"Ntldr is missing" when trying to boot to a floppy

[Plastpose]

I'm a little tired and sick of troubleshooting after about 5 hours now, so when this turned up I got a little p-d off.

I just created a new partition on my win2k box, where I intend to install win98se. I used the ultra easy Partition Magic 7, and after it had done it's things I let it reboot to a windows 98 floppy disc so that I can start installation of win98se on my new (primary partition). Unfortunaltely I get this error msg when I try to do so:

NTLDR is missing
Press any key to restart

What the hell do I do now?

I can boot into win2k fine, but I want to install win98se on the new partition, so using a floppy to boot should make this possible. I just don't understand why the floppy won't boot. This partition is not supposed to have anything to do with win2k. So what do I do now? Have I given win98se the wrong drive letter or something?

 

[Heisenberg]

I've had that problem using floppies that were formatted or created under win2k. I have to do a full format and make the disk on a 98 machine and that seems to fix it. There's something weird about the way win2k handles floppies - I've had several other problems besides that one.

 

[spoma]

you will get that error in Nt sometimes if you have a non boot disk in the floppy when you restart. If I was you I would try and create a new bootdisk. It sounds to me like there is a problem with that one.

 

[Plastpose]

I have already made several new boot disks, and this is the first that even got this far! The others all gave me disk errors. Since they were all made in Win2k, I suppose that could be a problem. However I can't install win98 anywhere to make a new floppy, so if anyone has any other ideas that'd be great.

I made the boot disks from downloaded files from the internet. Remember these are win98 boot disks. The boot disk should not look at boot.ini at all, if you ask me. Isn't this where the problem comes from?

 

[Plastpose]

Bump 😉

Is this topic better suited to the OS forum?

 

[Nocturnal]

do a search for ntldr and you'll come up with a lot of posts regarding this.

if you dont come up with anything with the newer threads, search the arhcieved threads and you'll definately come up with something.

 

[jmagg]

bootdisk

 

[uhohibrokeit]

whatever your trying to use to make boot disks in Win2K is crap... you need to get your hands on a working boot disk

 

[Plastpose]

<< bootdisk >>



That's the one mate! Works like a charm. Can't believe I had to make 6 different win98 boot disks before it would work...