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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: brcartel on September 28, 2008, 07:32:30 PM

Title: Help installing XP
Post by: brcartel on September 28, 2008, 07:32:30 PM

Okay im getting extremely fed up with this now.. this has to be the 4th time i've reformatted in the last 5 days.

Asus M2A-VM mobo
Western digital 500 gb sata hd (os installed on this one)
250 gb Western digital ide slave drive
plextor dvd writer
amd athalon x2 64
2 gb ram XMS2 corsair

okay so the first few times i reformatted i couldn't get the os to load without the xp cd that was cuz of the sata drivers not installed.  I figured that out, made a boot floppy with the sata drivers did the f6 stuff before installing installed the drivers and everything was good.

however after a few days i got some worms and trojans on the computer most likely through the antivirus program i had on there, random pop ups would just appear, couldn't access the task manager, anytime i would install an antivirus program or spyware program it would install and just not load.  I got fed up and reformatted the system but now is where the problem comes in this time when i reformatted i was installing my mobo drivers and when prompted to restart i get the message

NTLDR is missing
Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart

tried the repair console and i still keep getting the same message
it only works if i have the xp cd in the drive, won't boot any other way..

plz help im gettin extreeeemly frustrated with this now..

Title: Re: Help installing XP
Post by: BC_Programmer on September 28, 2008, 07:36:39 PM

reformat again. Something apparently corrupted the drive.


Speaking of which- how old is the Hard Drive?

by motherboard drivers- do you mean the SATA controller drivers, or the motherboard drivers AFTER windows was installed?

Title: Re: Help installing XP
Post by: cohen on September 28, 2008, 07:37:40 PM

it sounds like the hard drive is slow dying....

How old is it???

Edit - BC _ programmer bet me to it

Title: Re: Help installing XP
Post by: brcartel on September 28, 2008, 07:54:02 PM

the hd is brand new

and i mean the mobo drivers after windows is installed..

http://forums.techguy.org/windows-nt-2000-xp/597060-windows-only-boots-cd.html

i found this thread hopefully this helps, im gonna try the floppy boot and copy the bootini, ntdetect, and ntdlr files hopefully that works.. i really don't know what else to do..

Title: Re: Help installing XP
Post by: BC_Programmer on September 28, 2008, 08:20:15 PM

Can you start recovery console from the CD?

Title: Re: Help installing XP
Post by: brcartel on September 28, 2008, 08:21:35 PM

yes i can