Just curious, exactly how did you copy "everything off of my old drive onto
the new one"?

Lardy.



"JT" <jtnet0@netzero.net> wrote in message
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>I got a 30Gig hard drive my brother no longer needed. I copied
> everything off of my old drive onto the new one, but when I try to boot
> I get the "NTLDR is missing" error message. I can only boot using a
> floppy disk. I researched the NTLDR message and have tried everything
> I saw including using the XP CD to create and format the partition;
> using the Recovery Console with fixboot, fixmbr, and bootcfg; and
> copying ntdetect.com and ntldr off of the CD.
>
> Nothing works except to use the floppy. I even tried copying the
> working files off of the floppy onto the hard drive. Any ideas? I
> know that everything is correct in the BIOS setup and the "NTLDR is
> missing" message is coming from the boot sector of the hard drive in
> question.
>
> Thanks.
> -JT
>