Subj : NTLDR
To   : Bob Hoffman
From : Ed Bailey
Date : Fri Oct 22 2004 10:39 am

 Bob Hoffman wrote in a message to All:

Bob, this error is caused because your computer is not identifying your hard 
drive correctly. It can be caused by a number of situations, for example, if 
you have identified the drive in CMOS (Not using AUTO), and sometime while your 
computer is on, and you have a slight power glitch, it can change the CMOS 
setting - then NTLDR occurs, in this case resetting the CMOS whill allow your 
computer to boot.
If you make a selection in the hard drive setup, via having the computer find 
the drive, it quite often will give you 2 or 3 options. Usually you should 
select the one with "LBA" indicated - but I've found that doesn't always work.
The usual best option is just to select "Auto" in the hard drive window 
defining the drives in the computer.
Now a unhappy prospect - your computer may not support a 200 gig hard drive, I 
also have a computer running W2k and when I went to install a 40 gig hard drive 
in it, I found the CMOS would not support anything over 32 gig, I ended up 
purchasing a updated CMOS - but it will only support up to a 137 gig hard 
drive. This is a 667 mhz computer probably 5 years old.

Take care, have fun, don't panic. :))



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

BH> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

BH> Thanks,

BH> Bob


  TTYL,
        Ed
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