Problems reformatting

[cider303]

I recently tried to reformat my harddrive and I put in
the windows cd and it didnt load, a blue screen comes up
and it starts teh setup screen then says loading windows
and then it goes to a dark grey screen and the cdrom
stops spinning. I took the harddrive out and put it in a
different computer and used the same cd to reformat. It
finnally worked but now the drive gives me a NTLDR
missing error. My floppy isnt working correctly and i
cannot use a boot disk to fix this problem. any
suggestions?

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

If you formatted the hard drive, then ntldr would not and will not exist
until you reinstall WindowsXP. What exactly are you trying to accomplish?

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Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
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"cider303" > wrote in message
...
> I recently tried to reformat my harddrive and I put in
> the windows cd and it didnt load, a blue screen comes up
> and it starts teh setup screen then says loading windows
> and then it goes to a dark grey screen and the cdrom
> stops spinning. I took the harddrive out and put it in a
> different computer and used the same cd to reformat. It
> finnally worked but now the drive gives me a NTLDR
> missing error. My floppy isnt working correctly and i
> cannot use a boot disk to fix this problem. any
> suggestions?

[Michael Stevens]

cider303 wrote:
> I recently tried to reformat my harddrive and I put in
> the windows cd and it didnt load, a blue screen comes up
> and it starts teh setup screen then says loading windows
> and then it goes to a dark grey screen and the cdrom
> stops spinning. I took the harddrive out and put it in a
> different computer and used the same cd to reformat. It
> finnally worked but now the drive gives me a NTLDR
> missing error. My floppy isnt working correctly and i
> cannot use a boot disk to fix this problem. any
> suggestions?

Follow the steps in the link below.
You boot from the CD and do a clean install.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address bar.
How to clean install XP.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
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