Can't do a clean installation after I changed the power supply

[Grace]

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your computer is outdated" or "one or more of the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outdated?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

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

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your computer is outdated" or "one or more of the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outdated?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.

 

[Mike Brown]

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

Since this happened right after you changed the power supply, I would first
make sure you plugged everything back in correctly, especially your hard
drive(s).

--

Mike Brown
Asset Forwarding Corp.
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DoD 5220.22-M Data Elimination
http://www.assetforwarding.com

 

[Kerm Jensen]

Also check the battery on your mother board if your system
has been down for that long. Avoid other unfriendly
surprises.