megagram Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 I tried installing OS X on my friend's PC as he was fed up with Viruses etc. He has two drives. One 40gb which had two windows installations on it and another 250gb which had an 80gb NTFS partition and then the rest was partitioned for linux but I erased that partition and made it HFS+ for the OS X install. OS X installed fine, rebooted and as long as I went in to the BIOS to select the 250gb drive as the first drive it would boot up. To get back to windows I would just go into the BIOS and switch the drive order. Since his network card didn't work, we decided to back up his 40gb drive onto the 250gb within OS X and then reformat and re-install windows on the 40gb drive. Booted up with the Win XP install disk, deleted the 40gb partition and created a new NTFS partition on that drive. INstalled windows. All is good. EXCEPT NOW when I select the 250gb drive in BIOS, it boots up with an error message along the lines of "Error 17 [i think]. NTLDR Missing. Press ctrl-alt-delete to reboot". Please any help would be appreciated! For your info, the boot.ini file from the old C: drive didn't have any mention of the OS X partition--just the two windows installs on the C: drive. So I can't see how reformatting the 40gb drive would have affected the OS X install on the 250GB drive. THanks again, Graham Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20014-after-successful-install-now-get-ntldr-missing-error-at-startup/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
macprodan Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 Bit Lost there but heres what i would do. Best Bet to Try some Windows / OS X Recovery Options that are available via command lines if there is a Parirtion with Data you need... Or My Fav Install OS's again Seperatley onto Both Drives, leaving one unplugged each time. then Connect Both Drives and add chain0 to XP's C: Then add line in Boot.ini for OS X or Windows option at startup.. you could Create 2 Volumes on the 250Gb, one for OS X, and one for Data (make sure you format the one for Data Fat32, so you can share Data Between OSX an XP). On the small Drive install XP Lite use that for Gaming and OS X for Real Apps Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20014-after-successful-install-now-get-ntldr-missing-error-at-startup/#findComment-131666 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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