Will not boot without cd

[babydoc36]

I have recently had problems with booting into windows xp home. If I
have the windows xp cd entered in the drive everything is okay as long
as I boot from the cd. If I take it out or boot from one of the hard
drives, I get NTLDR is missing error message on bootup. Anyone have
any thoughts on this problem? Thanks in advance for any advice.

Greg A.

 

[Guest]

Hi,

Is there any floppy disk inside the floppy drive?
If yes, take it out and try to reboot again.

Pls post abck to NG.

 

[babydoc36]

No floppy in disk drive. CMOS set to seek floppy on start up.

 

[Guest]

Hi,

If you're sure that you do not have a floppy disk in the floppy drive, I
think your OS is upgraded from Win 98.
If yes, try as described below:

If you still get an error that NTLDR is missing during bootup:
If you have FAT32 partitions, it is much simpler than with NTFS.
Just boot with a Win98 floppy and copy the NTLDR or NTDETECT.COM files
from the i386 folder of your XP CD to the root of the C:\ drive.

For NTFS:

1.. Insert and boot from your WindowsXP CD.
2.. At the first R=Repair option, press the R key
3.. Press the number that corresponds to the correct location for the
installation of Windows you want to repair.
Typically this will be #1
4.. Enter in the administrator password when requested
5.. Enter in the following commands (X: is replaced by the actual drive
letter that is assigned to the CD ROM drive.
COPY X:\i386\NTLDR C\:
COPY X:\i386\NTDETECT.COM C:\
6.. Take out the CD ROM and type exit


Pls post back to NG for the outcome

 

[babydoc36]

No disk in the floppy drive

 

[babydoc36]

I tried your idea using repair for NTFS format. However, I ran into
another problem. My password does not work. I built the system myself
and installed XP home on my own. I didn't enter any password. When I
leave it blank it doesn't work either. After doing some reading, I
round that microsoft created a hidden administrator password on this
version of windows. Any ideas how can successfully use the Repair
function if I can't determine the password. Thanks. Greg A.

 

[Guest]

Hi,


Try this link:
http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm

Pls post back to NG for the outcome.