Hello, I'm having some troubles with my PC as you've probably gathered from the thread title
Recently I tried to install Linux on a 5GB partition on my main harddrive that contained Windows XP Professional Eddition which was a totally stupid idea as i didn't even really know what I was doing I got irritated because it was late at night and I was tired and gave up the linux install. The next morning I got on my pc and tried to boot Windows with no luck at first it gave me operating system not found error, next i installed tried to format the drive and reinstall windows after the first part of the installation it rebooted as it should but then it started up to say NTLDR is missing, press ctrl+alt+del to restart
I've tried a magnitude of different things to try and correct this, such as: installed XP to a seperate 6gb hard drive, deleted the partitions on my main drive then created a new partition and formatted with NTFS, booting off the windows CD and using the repair console to do FIXMBR and FIXBOOT, and alot of reformats and reinstalls but none seemed to work untill recently. I placed my main harddrive on the seccond IDE channel as a master with a DVD-ROM drive as a slave, with this setup I would be asked if I wanted to boot either the Windows XP Professional Eddition on the C drive or E drive, but today I retried installing linux, got it installed on the 6gb then when I tried to boot windows from my 40gb drive i got NTLDR is missing, so I reinstalled windows onto the 6GB drive thinking that i'd be able to select which drive I wanted to boot from again but now there's no option and it boots straight from the 6gb drive although the 40gb shows up as C drive in windows explorer, I did look at the root of the two drive's contents and they both had different things here are some screenshots
My 40gb (with NTLDR missing error)
And my 6gb that is booting fine
Does anybody know why my C drive wont boot and how to fix it so it is my master on the first IDE channel and boots windowx XP? I do see how much crap this is to read and won't be supprised if nobody has the time to help so thanks anyway.
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