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NTLDR missing

QueBert

QueBert

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Had installed Ubuntu and XP wouldn't boot no matter what I did. so I killed the partitions Ubuntu was on. Afterwards the partitions were back to how they were before Ubuntu. I used Super Grub to remove grub, rebooted and got NTLDR missing

so I popped my XP CD in, tried a repair install, it copied the files. The system rebooted and I got the NTLDR missing error before it got to the 2nd part of the install. So I went in the recovery console and tried copying ntldr & ntdetect.com, they were both in my c:\ boot.ini looked fine.

any ideas how I can fix this, my partitions all come out fine when I check them in Gparted. I just want to get my XP to either load, or let me do a upgrade install
 
Originally posted by: QueBert
Had installed Ubuntu and XP wouldn't boot no matter what I did. so I killed the partitions Ubuntu was on. Afterwards the partitions were back to how they were before Ubuntu. I used Super Grub to remove grub, rebooted and got NTLDR missing

so I popped my XP CD in, tried a repair install, it copied the files. The system rebooted and I got the NTLDR missing error before it got to the 2nd part of the install. So I went in the recovery console and tried copying ntldr & ntdetect.com, they were both in my c:\ boot.ini looked fine.

any ideas how I can fix this, my partitions all come out fine when I check them in Gparted. I just want to get my XP to either load, or let me do a upgrade install
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I see in your sig that you have two hard drives. Unplug the extra drive until you're done installing Windows, and then attach it later. If the NTLDR problem returns, go into the motherboard's BIOS and change the hard-disk priority so the boot drive is on top of the stack.
 
Linux partitions don't always clear out when you run the XP setup, you've got to first use some tool to wipe out the MBR.

If you're trying to save a current installation of Windows, take a spare hard drive and run the initial setup of XP until the first reboot. Now you'd have to hook both the spare drive and the drive to save as extras on yet another computer with XP. Then you can just use the Windows Explorer interface to do a straight file copy from one hard drive to another. This should allow the spare drive to boot into Windows. Afterwards, use a disk cloning software to copy the spare back to the original.

I had to do that once to save an installation of XP on a laptop hard drive which was giving me fits with the ntldr missing error. I tried absolutely everything else I could find around the net to no success (about 30 hours of total wasted time trying all the different suggestions).
 
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