MR2Mike
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Registered: 20th Jan 05
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Hi, just built a new high spec pc, all set up fine - 2 other people have checked and nothing is a miss, but when you reboot with the windows cd, it fails to load setup - "cdboot: cannot find NTLDR"
any ideas whats goin on? tries several Windows disks which i know all work fine
Windows XP Pro btw
Cheers
[Edited on 04-08-2007 by MR2Mike]
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Liam
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I had this before, I was told to re-install windows. I did, and worked straight away.
Maybe try a completly reformat it.
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MR2Mike
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new pc, new drives, cant even format it yet mate
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Liam
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ahh, so you havn't even got it working.
Are you using a legit version, or a copy?
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MR2Mike
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nah, yes mate have tried both
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Kurt
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Registered: 23rd Oct 05
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i had an error message on my laptop saying ntldr missing, had to get a new harddrive
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Andrew
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Check the BIOS is picking up the hard drive and it is set up right. I just have mine set to auto.
Could be the CD drive is a little dodgy or try another Windows CD. I've had CDs work in some drives fine and not work in other drives. You would think they would have sorted this problem out with newer drives 
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Deadude
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Registered: 30th Jun 07
Location: Spondon, Derby
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drivers wont really help in bios now will they?
also as far as i know ntldr is the windows loading thing so the hardrive cant be new must have an old copy of windows on or something...
anyways make sure the cd drive is first in boot menu...
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Cybermonkey
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get a copy of dariks boot and nuke http://dban.sourceforge.net/
Wipe that sucker off the face of the earth and try again. If you cannot install windows from various windows installation CD's, i would hazard a guess at something more critical. Could be dodgy CD-ROM not reading the disc properly, or it could be that the hard disk itself has not been set correctly with the jumpers on the back. It might be set to Slave when in fact it should be Master
[Edited on 12-08-2007 by Cybermonkey]
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Deadude
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even if it is slave it wont make a difference and im hoping he didnt get IDE drives if hes just got a new PC if it doesnt boot from CD its either the CD or CD Rom Drive
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Ian
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Looks to me like its attempting to boot from the hard drive before the stuff is copied over properly off the boot CD, make sure your boot sequence includes CD drive so its you that after the reboot.
You can format it - the XP installer CD will allow you to create the partition and format so long as its a full install CD and not upgrade version.
[Edited on 12-08-2007 by Ian]
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