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Problem reinstallin Dell CD on hard drive

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Heusen77

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hey

when i tried to reinstall my dell reinstallation cd on my hard drive that i formatted it giving me a message "NTSDL is missing". Can anyone help me with this?

 
The message is NTLDR is missing.

This means that the drive is formatted (duh) and that the filesystem is expecting the NTLDR to help in the boot process, but it isn't there. Overly simplified, but that's what's going on.

Now..the reason it says that is likely because on the Dell it is not set to boot from your CD before it tries the hard drive. So it tries the hard drive, there is an error and it hangs up.

What you need to do is go into the BIOS/Setup. When your computer first starts it should have a message like press F1 to go into setup or something of that nature. Once in the setup you need to change the boot order so that the CD-ROM is before the hard drive in the order.

Alternatively there may be a message like "Press F12 for boot menu" and you can press that and it will bring up a menu asking which device to boot from and you can pick the CD-ROM there.
 
Originally posted by: OdiN
The message is NTLDR is missing.

This means that the drive is formatted (duh) and that the filesystem is expecting the NTLDR to help in the boot process, but it isn't there. Overly simplified, but that's what's going on.

Now..the reason it says that is likely because on the Dell it is not set to boot from your CD before it tries the hard drive. So it tries the hard drive, there is an error and it hangs up.

What you need to do is go into the BIOS/Setup. When your computer first starts it should have a message like press F1 to go into setup or something of that nature. Once in the setup you need to change the boot order so that the CD-ROM is before the hard drive in the order.

Alternatively there may be a message like "Press F12 for boot menu" and you can press that and it will bring up a menu asking which device to boot from and you can pick the CD-ROM there.
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i tried what you have there but that did not work at all, it keep promtin me to press F1 or F2 to restart the computer.
 
Originally posted by: bacillus
Just for clarification, you are booting from the XP CD right?
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yes I am booting from the XP CD. Oh, I want to change the partitions that are on the hard drive to.
 
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