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XP Error
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 3:43 pm
by iranintoavan
Hey I formated my friends drive and now im trying to install windows xp on it but when i put the cd in it boots up but dosent come to the cd or anything it comes to a black screen that says "ntldr is missing press ctrl + alt + del to restart" what do i do? how do i install xp?
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 3:50 pm
by NascarFool
Try the boot floppies from
http://www.bootdisk.com , you'll need four blank floppy disks.
What are the specs of the comp ?
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 4:08 pm
by iranintoavan
specs are an old pentium 3 733 mhz, 256 ram
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 5:37 pm
by Pugsley
should run.. i had xp on the same with only 128 megs... ran fine.
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 5:55 pm
by eGoCeNTRoNiX
Is it set to boot from the CD in the bios?
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 6:21 pm
by iranintoavan
its an old bios and i cant find where the boot settings are
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 9:30 pm
by FlyingPenguin
That error can also mean there's a non-bootable floppy in the floppy drive.
Otherwise you need to find the boot order in the BIOS and make the CD the first boot drive.