As stated in original inquiry have replace hard drive with new, larger
capacity, hard drive. This is a clean install (To clarify...system came
from factory with Windows ME and I had stability problems and HD crashed.
Installed a second HD and installed Windows 98SE as OS. Recently my 2nd HD
crashed. Data has been recovered and is presently residing on DVD. Have now
installed 3rd Hard Drive and am attempting to perform a "clean" install of MS
Windows XP Pro w/ SP2).

Should you return to original inquiry you will see that I have made several
approaches to arrive at a solution with no result(s). HELP!


"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

>
> "ClearlyBefuddled" <ClearlyBefuddled@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:7CA35A6D-22E7-4A26-B9A2-81C7BF49EB8F@microsoft.com...
> > Old system was a MS ME that I down/upgraded to Windows 98SE. Replaced
> > crashed HD with new 80 GB drive. Am installing MS Windows XP Pro (w/ SP2)
> on
> > PIII 800MHz. At some point in process receive MS DOS message "NTLDR is
> > missing","Press any key to restart". Have tried a number of "solutions"
> > regarding this issue. None have worked ... or even begun to work. Have
> > "attempted" Recovery, booting from Windows 98SE start-up disk, fdisk, and
> > partition assignment. Do I need to upgrade my BIOS or what?
>
> There is no downgrade path from WinME to Win98. Upgrading
> from Win98 to WinXP is possible but often causes a number of
> problems. With your previous "downgrade", who knows what
> condition Win98 is in?
>
> I recommend a clean installation of WinXP (after you have
> backed up all your important data).
>
>
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