"NTLDR is missing"

[WolverinesSuck]

I installed win2k and now want to dual boot, however whenever I boot from a win98 boot disk, I get the above error message. I've tried totally reformatted my c: drive and tried booting to dos with no OS whatsoever and I still get this error. So basically I have no way at all to remove win2k even if i wanted to, or dual boot.

Anybody hear of this and/or have a solution?

Thanks

 

[FirmPete]

fdisk/mbr on your harddrive should do the trick

 

[Doh!]

Go into the bios setup, make the boot order to A/C/Cd-rom, and boot with a win9x boot disk.

 

[Davegod75]

if you don't want to do the mbr thing you can boot from the w2k cd and do a repair boot sector. make sure you change the order things are booting to in the bios if you want to boot from a floppy or cd rom

 

[CTR]

Are you sure you have the win98 system files on the bootdisk?

 

[WolverinesSuck]

I'll have to try the fdisk/mbr however I can't get to a dos prompt at all. no matter what kind of boot disk i try win95, win98, winme, i get this error message. i've downloaded about 20 different boot disks from sites like bootdisk.com and none of them work.

microsoft has a "resolution" for this but it involves booting to a dos prompt which i can't do.

i guess i'll have to stick with win2k

but thanks for the responses

 

[FirmPete]

-Are you using floppy disks that were formatted under NT/Win2K?

If so the bootsector of the diskette has the same system as your Harddisk, thus the same error.
Tried a bootdisk from a friend?

 

[WolverinesSuck]

firm pete - you are da man! thanks alot - that's exactly what it was. created a win95 start disk at a friends computer and it booted right to dos. was able to fdisk /mbr and then format - thanks for everyone's help