re: XP installation problems
Thursday, November 15, 2001 at 7:10 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Carlos
(1 messages posted)
Hey Luis, it sounds like the HDD you first tried to install XP on is toast as far
as Win95 is concerned. If I were you I would go ahead and reformat the entire drive
and try a clean install of XP on it and see how that works. Especially since you
were smart enough to backup your files on another HDD. Good luck.
--Carlos
On Thursday, November 15, 2001 at 4:49 am, Luis E. Rodríguez wrote:
>I got a new motherboard and Windows XP Home edition with it. My existing hard drives
>were transferred over to the new system which already had Windows 95 running on
them.
>
>I tried to install Windows XP as an upgrade and it didn't let me so I went from
the
>full install option by booting from the CD. Everything appeared to be OK until
the
>first reboot. I get a message telling "NTLDR.EXE is missing" and does not proceed
>any further. I tried booting again from the CD but the setup process starts all
>over again.
>
>Help!!!!!!
>
>I tried to reinstall Windows 95 again and found that the XP setup deleted my entire
>\windows directory and now I have a crippled system because very few programs run
>due to missing files.
>
>Why does this "ntldr.exe is missing" thing happens? Would the XP setup work if
I
>choose to format the partition where I will install XP?
I already copied everything
>else (should have done that at the very beginning) into the other hard drive, so
>nothing else would be lost.
>
>Thanks.
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