installation problem

[Guest]

I'm trying to install an oem version of windows xp home I
bought on a brand new, empty hard drive and the
installation disk won't boot. I get an message saying
"NTLDR is missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to restart"

I found a fix on microsoft.com but it doesn't seem to apply
to me. The fix is for installing or upgrading from an
older OS. Mine is a stand alone full install on a new
drive. The hard drive appears to have installed just fine.

Can anyone help? Please and Thank you.

System: Iwill VD133 Pro motherboard
733 Mb Intel Pent. 3 Processor
768 Megs of pc133 sdram

 

[Malke]

I'm trying to install an oem version of windows xp home I
bought on a brand new, empty hard drive and the
installation disk won't boot. I get an message saying
"NTLDR is missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to restart"

I found a fix on microsoft.com but it doesn't seem to apply
to me. The fix is for installing or upgrading from an
older OS. Mine is a stand alone full install on a new
drive. The hard drive appears to have installed just fine.

Can anyone help? Please and Thank you.

System: Iwill VD133 Pro motherboard
733 Mb Intel Pent. 3 Processor
768 Megs of pc133 sdram

Be sure all peripherals (printers, scanners, cameras) are disconnected
and any BIOS-level antivirus is disabled. If you are already doing a
clean install and the installation is failing, you probably have bad
hardware. Start with a RAM test - I like Memtest86 from
www.memtest86.com - and let the test run for an extended time, like
overnight (unless you get errors immediately). If the RAM is good, then
run a hard drive diagnostic utility, which you can get from the drive
mftr.'s website or one may have come with your drive if you bought
retail. I know your drive is new, but that doesn't mean it can't be
faulty. Also, XP (and other modern operating systems) is much fussier
than Win9x/ME about marginal RAM. I'm guessing your RAM is elderly
since your m/b and processor are older hardware.

Malke