help needed in hard drive replacement

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help needed in hard drive replacement srikestra 12-20-2005
Posted by srikestra on December 20, 2005, 10:40 am
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When my primary hard drive failed to load Wins Pros XP, I removed both
hard drives - the second one has only data - and try to install one
hard drive first to install O/S.

I set the jumpers of the hard drive to master when installing it even
though I am installing only one hard rive now.

I am stuck at the satge " NTLDR missing" and do not know how to
proceed.

Note that I didn't not make any boot disk for my old PC.

I have windows '98 boot disk - got from the course I wss taking to
learn computer repair a bit - but not Win 98 Operating System cd. I
have Window XP, the one w/o any service pack, the one with serivce pack
1, and the one with service pack 2.

In my old hardrive that is damaged, I used the one without any service
pack because initially, I was upgrading it from windows 2000 and later
downloaded the service packs. I did reformat that hard drive last year
September - actually a friend of mine did it - and reinstalled windows
XP using the same installation cd.

(1) Can anyone guide me in proceeding?


(2) As for the second hard drive I took out from my pc, can I just put
it in another PC as the second hard drive and not need to do anything
and be able to access my data in that drive?


Thanks.


Posted by Todd H. on December 20, 2005, 10:56 am
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> When my primary hard drive failed to load Wins Pros XP, I removed both
> hard drives - the second one has only data - and try to install one
> hard drive first to install O/S.
>
> I set the jumpers of the hard drive to master when installing it even
> though I am installing only one hard rive now.
>
> I am stuck at the satge " NTLDR missing" and do not know how to
> proceed.

Hi Srikestra,

Sorry to hear of your trouble. Your question has nothing to do with
security, unfortunately, so is off-topic for comp.security.misc.

If you repost in comp.os.ms-windows.misc I bet you'll receive some
guidance.

--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

Posted by on December 21, 2005, 1:01 am
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Hi Srikestra

1. You can find the term NTLDR in A+ Certification Book. Be remember,
every time you use your hard dive as a NTFS format, be aware NTLDR
file. It may be remissing.
2. You can use your second hard disk in another computer as a slave.
You must set the jumper setting as a slave and this computer's original
hard disk as a primary.


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