"Grace" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> My old computer hasn't been used for about 1 year since
> its power supply (AT style) died. Yeasterday I found a
> new AT power supply and installed it in my computer. My
> computer began to start up. However It restarted over and
> over by itself but never succeeded. So I used Windows
> 2000 CD to do a clean installation. But it failed. When
> the screen display :"Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM. Press any
> key to boot from CD" for a while, it display a error
> message:"NTLDR is missing. Press CTRL+AIT+DEL to
> restart." I restarted it for several times, didn't work.
>
> I read a Microsoft knowledge Base article numbered
> 318728. It says "This problem may occur if the BIOS on
> your computer is outdated" or "one or more of the
> following windows boot files are missing or damaged:
> NTLDR, Ntdetect.com, Boot.ini." I don't undedrstand that
> my computer had windows 2000 installed and run for a long
> time before the power supply died. How come the BIOS is
> outdated? And even if the boot files missed, I tried to
> do a clean installation here but not succeed. My CD
> should not have problem. I used it to install before.
> Could anybody help me? Thanks very much.
>
> GRACE
If this was my machine then I would check its boot
behaviour with some other bootable CD. If you don't
have any of those then you can do this:
- Boot the machine with a Win98 boot diskette from
www.bootdisk.com.
- Run fdisk.exe & format.exe to create an active FAT32
partition of the desired size. You will, of course. lose
all existing files and folders.
- Run this command from the \i386 folder of your Win2000 CD:
winnt
This will get the Win2000 installation process going.
Later on you can convert your FAT32 partition to NTFS
if you wish.
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