Drmmr6622 Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 so i had a spare hard drive and i put the leagal iso that i had on the hd and tried to boot it but when i did it said that NTLDR was missing i was wondering if anyone knew what this ment. THX Bryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reveeen Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 NTLDR (abbreviation of NT Loader) is the boot loader for all releases of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system up to and including Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. NTLDR is typically run from the primary hard disk drive, but it can also run from portable storage devices such as a CD-ROM, USB flash drive, or floppy disk. NTLDR can also load a non NT-based operating system given the appropriate boot sector in a file. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTLDR Are you trying to boot it within windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drmmr6622 Posted February 23, 2008 Author Share Posted February 23, 2008 No i put the iso on a separate hard drive and tried to boot it by restarting the computer. the hard drive had a previous installation of windows xp on it but i erased all of the data files would this have anything to do with it? The only reason i used a hard drive to boot off of is because i dont have a dvd burner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reveeen Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 1) There is a MBR (master boot record) to be cleaned off of the hardrive. 2) you must format the drive in Mac and put the ISO on the drive within a Mac enviorment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drmmr6622 Posted February 23, 2008 Author Share Posted February 23, 2008 so i have to hook it up to a mac and format it or is there another way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drmmr6622 Posted February 23, 2008 Author Share Posted February 23, 2008 Ok i tried to load it from vmware and it still gives me the NTLDR error is there any way that i can fix this? PLZ write back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reveeen Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Go to the hardrives makers website and get their utility (free download) It will expand to a floppy boot from that floppy write 0's to the drive That will "erase it all', MBR, and everything I am under the understanding that if you format the drive to Fat32 you can copy your disk over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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