Ntldr file missing, press ctrl+alt+del after new install

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Hi guys,
Hope someone can help, appologies if this is the wrong forum to post in.

I have a 40Gig Segate hardrive that is partioned with 8gig as drive C and
32gig as E.
The machine was booting fine and i decided to remove some of the clutter and
junk from C by doing a fresh install including formating c: I left E: drive
intact.
I've have performed this many times before without any problems. This time
however the drive formatted fine, copied the files as required. On rebooting
the machine prompted me with the above "Ntldr file missing, press ctr+alt+del"
So i tried the whol process again - to no avail.
I even tried formating it as FAT32 instead and now things have got even
worse. It formats fine, copies all files but on reboot now displays

"invalid system disk
boot from atapi cd rom: failure....
pls remove media and checkdisk"
it scrolls this repeatedly down the screen - stuck in a loop.

So i figured - fine lets try formatting back to NTFS - nup, the above
message is still scrolling down the screen.

Anybody got any ideas?
 
How and where do you do this?

This machine has been partinoned in its current format for the last year
with no problems. When i use the xp-cd to install the OS and it ask's what
drive i want to install it onto - i select C: it doen't aks anything about
it being active or otherwise.
Thanks
 
I've missed out what i now think is some fairly critical info. I had Server
2003 installed on E: prior to my reinstall of Xp-pro on C: as a dual boot
system. What differences will this make to reinstalling XP on c: ?
 
I've missed out what i now think is some fairly critical info. I had Server
2003 installed on E: prior to my reinstall of Xp-pro on C: as a dual boot
system. What differences will this make to reinstalling XP on c: ?
 
You likely wiped out boot.ini on C: -- but it can be fixed in the recovery
console -- or manually after the re-install.
I think you likely also deleted the partition before formatting
 
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