Hardware problem: Cannot install XP OS on the hard disk! (Western digital WD800BB Caviar 80 GB Hard Drive (20 Pack))
| Solid State Drives (SSD) & Hard Drives Discuss, Cannot install XP OS on the hard disk! (Western digital WD800BB Caviar 80 GB Hard Drive (20 Pack)) at Computer Hardware forum; This thread is about the Western digital WD800BB Caviar 80 GB Hard Drive (20 Pack) . Click here to see full specs Hi, Its tashi, I'm a computer teacher and I maintain computers in the class...I have always some problem with hard disks and somehow was able to solve all |
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Hi, Its tashi, I'm a computer teacher and I maintain computers in the class...I have always some problem with hard disks and somehow was able to solve all those problems...this time is a bit tricky! The system crashed! On booting it showed the following message! C:/window/system/ " system file corrupt... Insert the setup CD-ROM and Press 'r' on the start screen to repair.. I did put the right CD in did the same thing as instructed...the message would still appear... I went on and unplugged the hard disk and plugged it into another computer that was working and formatted the hard drive.. Now I try reboot the with the right XP CD...it shows this message.. NDLTR Missing! Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.... What a mess!!! Can anyone help me.... |
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| Hi, since the disc is formatted anyway, I'd suggest getting Data Life Guard Diagnostics from WD support website, burn the image to CD-R(W) and boot from that disc. Then wipe the HDD entirely. You should then be able to reinstall Windows. Michael |
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| Thanks everyone, And thanks myself....I found the solution...and no one from cdfreak people helped me through with the problem I had... Well I plan to help others with the similar problems: ![]() The cause of this message: "NTLDR Missing" When the computer starts, the BIOS attempts to find the primary hard drive's active partition to read the first sector for the Master Boot Record - MBR to load the OS ... It happened in my case when formatted the hard disk pluging it to another functional computer as slave and copied the program file folder and the window folder of the working hard disk on to the slave hard drive.. what it did is, it changed the Master Boot Record file from its actual location. yah yahSolution to the problem:
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My "fix" was setting CD as primary boot device. Did u set up in bios "boot from cd" as 1st boot option? Or, if more then 1 HDD present, "eject the other HDD's and do as i said above. Easy. Ops...you allready "fix" it...kinda tricky ur "fix".... |
- #5
| 1) You can boot from the windows CD and repair an installation without wiping it. 2) If it still has issues with the missing ntldr ... I'd suggest that you use the windows CD and repair the MBR. 3) Pull the HDD out & edit the boot.ini to look for windows on the correct partition. Assuming you ripped the HDD out & wiped windows .... a) You set the partition that winxp is installed/will be installed on as the ACTIVE partition. b) Install windows from the CD. No floppy discs required.
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