NTLDR missing at startup

[gofra]

Hello!

I appologise if I placed this post in a wrong "room".


I'm having problems with my girlfriend's PC. It used to be a NT workstation before until the disk broke. I put in a new, 1.7 GIG disk previously formated in Win XP (my PC). Unfortunatly I cannot remember how was it formated (NTFS or FAT32). After I inserted the disk, the computer did recognise it, but it was not possible to acces any other drive (from dos) then my floppy (a. I restarted it with inserted WIN98 CD and it wouldn't boot from it. I decided to change the jumper settings - still no good. So I entered the BIOS (with Compaq diagnostics diskettes), wanting to change the boot order. It could not be done. I saw that computer recognised both, hard disk and CD unit but changing the boot order was not possible. I disabled booting from floppy and here I am now: NTLDR missing at startup.

Can anyone help me - what do I need to do?

It's a fresh formated disk and I want to install WIN98 on it, but don't know how to proceed. Any help would be great. Thank you in advance!

[RoSpider]

Donwload PowerQuest PartitionMagic form:

http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/

Create the 2 diskettes necesary to boot and run PQMagic in DOS mode. Set the computer to boot from the floppy disk drive again and boot from the newly created diskettes and, after Partition magic starts, create a new FAT32 partition and format it. After that boot from a WIN 98 boot disk and select Start computer with CD-ROM support. After it has booted access the CD drive (in which you should have entered the Win 98 CD) and run setup from the CD.

Good Luck

[gofra]

Thanx! I will try that!

[gofra]

Huh, I didn't mention that I cannot go further after I get that message. I hope your tip helps anyway!

[RoSpider]

I was aware that u could not do anything after u got that message so I wrote you the previous reply keeping that in mind. If u do everything as I told u it should work.

Good Luck