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..
