NTLDR missing ????

[Pete84]

I am doing a new installation of 2K on an older computer, and when I put the new hard drive in and tried to boot up to install, I got an error message "NTLDR missing" press crtl + alt + delete to reboot.
I tried clearing the CMOS, no luck at all. What to do??

 

[lein]

I think that basically means that an OS was not found. You will have to boot up from the 2K boot disks and (re?)install 2K

 

[Pete84]

Boot disk as in CD or floppy? I am installing onto a blank 40gb, new hard drive.

 

[Robor]

Are you booting off the CDROM? If so, look in the BIOS and make sure the CD is before your hard drive in the boot sequence.

 

[Doh!]

Originally posted by: Pete84
I tried clearing the CMOS, no luck at all. What to do??

By clearing the CMOS, you've set the Floppy drive as the default boot drive. If no floppy is found, your hard drive is the next boot option. If no OS is found, you'll get the message you're seeing.

As mentioned above, set your boot sequence to be CD first in CMOS.

 

[Pete84]

I set the CD drive as 1st boot device but it still gave me the error. Stuck the old hard drive in, booted up and installed 2K from there. Yup, that was n00b 🙁

 

[Saint Nick]

i had that problem... i had to play around with the boot configuration and eventually yes i did get it working.

i think i even had to jack around with the jumpers behind the hard drive...

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

Google has a crap load of info for this.

 

[Carl Uman]

If you are still having trouble with this make sure you don't have any external drives turned on. This happened to me last night on a reboot for a patch. Turned off my exteral HD and booted fine. I'll have to check the BIOS settings and see what the boot order is (hopefully that will be a more perminate fix).

 

[bchivers]

Have you tried formating it with the manufacturers disk?

 

[The Raven]

I'm assuming this is the bootable, full version and not an upgrade disk. I once had someone trying to boot the upgrade once but I don't remember what the error message was or what the circumstances were.

Anyway good luck to you!

 

[Bluefront]

I've had that happen before. You need to fdisk the drive before you install XP. I do it using a W98 bootable cd.

Strange that XP will completely install, but on the final boot, comes up with NTLDR missing.