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Black screen with "NTLDR is missing" message at startup

Oct 21, 2004 4:27AM PDT

I was screwing around with the partition and I think I merged the active patition into another partition and then it would not start. So, I started all over and install win 98 which said that it formated my hard drive. Win 98 seemed to load successfully, but when I try to upgrade to winxp I get the message during setup, "An unexpected error (0)occurred at line 1768 in d:\xpclient\base\boot\setup\arcdisp.c." I thoought I might have done something to the hard drive so I took it out and put it in an older working computer that I have and I now get "NTLDR is missing" message when I power up the computer before anything is loaded

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Re: Black screen with "NTLDR is missing" message at startup
Oct 21, 2004 11:17AM PDT

XP will not travel well from computer to computer.

Your install method appears somewhat convoluted. If you are using an upgrade version of XP there is no need to have a Windows version on the machine first. Simply boot the XP cd partition and format as needed and when asked for the previous version of Windows pop in the 98 cd.

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Re: Black screen with "NTLDR is missing" message at startup
Oct 21, 2004 4:20PM PDT

do you know what "NTLDR is missing" means?