Hard Drive Crashed with Operating System on it...

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Bought new hard drive, but am now having problem installing windows...I had
upgraded to Windows XP from a Gateway-installed Windows98. Windows98 was
installed on the Gateway hard drive, which I took when I built a new
computer. Now I'm getting a message when trying to boot windows "upgrade"
disk that says "NTLDR is missing". How do I install Windows since I don't
have disks from my old Gateway computer. Is this even the problem?
 
Try booting up using the XP CD-ROM and choose to repair. Then choose the
Recovery Console Option...
Choose the number corresponding to your XP version and enter your
Administrator Password (then press enter).

After that you'll see a command prompt...enter the following command:

bootcfg /rebuild" command to fix boot.ini.
FIXBOOT will fix the boot sector on the boot drive,
FIXMBR will fix the master boot record if the NT loader
complains of a missing HAL or unmountable boot volume.



After the process is completed enter the command EXIT to quit (and the
system should auto reboot OK from that point onwards...
peter
 

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