Trying to boot up a computer, but it will not boot from the hard drive at all

[neonerd]

I booted up with the windows xp cd, and have repartitioned and reformatted the drive. When I boot up to the hard drive, it comes up giving me the following error messege:

Couldn't open drive multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)
NTLDR: Couldn't open drive multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)

Steps I've tried:

Going into recovery console and typing in "FIXBOOT", "FIXMBR"
I've also tried going into the recovery console and typing the following:
COPY D:\i386\NTLDR C:
COPY D:\i386\NTDETECT.COM C:

 

[PanzerIV]

Hey, Neo. Not sure if you saw this Microsoft article yet but here are some additional tips I didn't see you list.


Good luck.

 

[Ze]

I've had this problem before. Took me 3 reformats before I realized what it was.

I noticed it would work if I left my XP CD in and when i set the cd-rom to boot first.
So, when I changed it to boot from the HD first, it worked with no problems.

Hope that helps.

 

[neonerd]

thanks, i'm trying the suggestions now

 

[neonerd]

none of the proposed solutions worked

 

[neonerd]

solved

What I did:

Copied the boot.ini file, ntldr, and the NTDETECT.COM files from a working computer, and had the computer boot from the floppy. This told the computer to boot the windows folder on the HDD. This way I was able to install windows xp, and log on. Once I did that, I copied the working files from the floppy and replaced the old ones. Works now, thanks