No Bootable CD in ATAPI CD-ROM NTLDR is missing

[breaker1369]

ok i have this hard drive that i had formated and well when i put it in my
laptop and started up with the XP home disc i get the message: No Bootable CD
in ATAPI CD-ROM and below that it says NTLDR is missing Press CTRL ALT DEL to
restart
what do i do?

 

[Malke]

ok i have this hard drive that i had formated and well when i put it in my
laptop and started up with the XP home disc i get the message: No Bootable
CD in ATAPI CD-ROM and below that it says NTLDR is missing Press CTRL ALT
DEL to restart
what do i do?

Apparently that "XP home disc" isn't bootable. Is it a retail copy or one
you burned? If the latter, how did you burn the disk?

Malke

 

[breaker1369]

its retail copy well its the holographic cd

Apparently that "XP home disc" isn't bootable. Is it a retail copy or one
you burned? If the latter, how did you burn the disk?

Malke
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[Malke]

its retail copy well its the holographic cd

See if the CD will boot in another computer. If it does, then there's
something wrong with the optical drive in your laptop. The optical drive
not working has nothing to do with the hard drive you put in. The error
message you're getting indicates that the system is correctly set to boot
from the optical drive first, failing, moving onto the next place to look
for boot files (the hard drive) and of course not seeing them because there
is no operating system installed on the drive (NTLDR is missing).

What happened to the restore disk/OS disk you got with the laptop? If you
didn't get one and didn't make a restore disk (and of course the hidden
partition holding the restore image would have gone with the original
drive) then the best solution is to get a restore disk from the laptop
mftr.

More details about why you are installing a retail version of XP on your
laptop might help narrow down the cause.

Malke

 

[breaker1369]

well i do have the recovery disks but it still says theres no bootable CD in
the drive

 

[Colon Terminus]

Then your laptop CD-ROM drive is hosed.

well i do have the recovery disks but it still says theres no bootable CD
in
the drive

 

[Malke]

well i do have the recovery disks but it still says theres no bootable CD
in the drive

Then the problem is a physical one with the optical drive - at the very
least. There could be other hardware issues which I know nothing about.
Contact the laptop mftr.'s tech support for repair/replacement or, if the
laptop is elderly and no longer under warranty, take it to a local computer
professional. This will not be a BigComputerStore/GeekSquad type of place.

If the laptop is extremely elderly (more than 4 years), consider replacing
it.

Malke