Subj : Ntldr
To   : Bob Hoffman
From : Charles Scaglione
Date : Fri Oct 22 2004 01:26 pm

Bob Hoffman wrote to All 

BH>Can anyone tell me what cause NTLDR not found error on boot?

BH>I am trying to install a large (200 G) hard drive. I am 
BH>booting and installing from W2000 CD Rom). I get this 
BH>error, when it tries to boot off the CD ROM. I have also 
BH>encountered this error when I tried to install an existing 
BH>drive in a new computer.

BH>Any help would be greatly appreciated.

NTLDR errors can sometimes be deceiving, but usually occur because of an 
error in boot.ini.  Since that's the first file the system looks for in 
the boot process, if boot.ini is not enumerated correctly, the boot 
sequence will fail displaying that error.

As for your 200 Gb HDD, Win2000 will only support a drive that large if:

1. You're running SP3 or higher
2. Your BIOS supports 48bit LBA

Of course if your BIOS does not support 48bit LBA, you can always use an 
add on card such as one from Promise or another.  Those cards contain an 
on board BIOS.

BTW, a drive that large has to be formatted using the NTFS file system.

Regards. 

chscag@gmail.com

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