Re: Please help ntldr is missing

It sounds like you probably have a bad hard drive or other hardware
problem. The original symptoms may well have been due to a failing drive.
This should have been checked before trying to reformat and reinstall Vista.
When you formatted the drive did you run a full format or a quick format?
Were any bad sectors reported?
It would be advisable to check the drive either by downloading the drive
manufacturers utility to make a bootable media or connecting it to another
computer. It wouldn't hurt to also run a RAM test.
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"akumageorges" <> wrote in message
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> About a month ago, my laptop (with vista as OS) started acting up,
> giving me error messages such as "windows\system32\boot\winload.exe
> missing or corrupt" as well as "windows\system32\stsem missing". I tried
> everything I could in vain, and I decided to go ahead and format my hard
> drive, through another computer using an enclosure kit since I couldn't
> even get into safe mode or any other mode without getting the error
> screen right away. I seemed that the problem was getting worst as I
> restarted my computer.
> As I mentioned above, I formatted my disc, thus lost all data, hoping
> to be able to install a clean version of VISTA. I reinstall my hard
> drive in the laptop, and just to make a quick test, I started the
> computer without the VISTA DVD in and I got the error "NTLDR is missing
> Press CTRL+Alt+Del to restart", and wondering what that was about, I
> looked it up on the internet, and most people seemed to say that error
> message was a typical windows XP type of error. But I never had XP on
> this computer. So I didn't do anything about and put the VISTA DVD in
> the drive and restarted the computer. I got the message "press any key
> to boot from CD or DVD." When I didn't push any button, I got the error
> message "NTLDR is missing Press CTRL+Alt+Del to restart", and then I
> restarted it and pushed a key to boot it from the VISTA DVD. I then got
> the "windows is loading files" screen. Once it was done loading files,
> it went straight to the error screen "Windows failed to start. A recent
> hardware or software change might be the cause
> .windows\system32\boot\winload.exe missing or corrupt . status
> 0x0000001.".
> At this point I really don't know what to do, and I'm totally confused,
> since my hard drive is totally empty and I still get those error
> messages.
>
> I got a tip from somebody telling me the reason i get that message is
> the fact i formatted the disc using and XP machine,implying that XP
> leaves codes specific to XP in the drive,thus the error message. But i
> don't have access to any other Vista machine, Does anybody know to get
> a clean format from XP?
>
> Please help
>
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"akumageorges" <> wrote in message
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> thanks for the reply. I did do a full formatting just today using a
> vista computer,but when i put the HDD back into my machine,the new error
> message i got is: BOOTMGR is missing, type ctrl+Alt+delete to restart.
> And when i restart,booting from my vista DVD to install a clean copy it
> shows the "windows loading files" screen then crashes again giving me
> the old message "winload,exe missing or corrupt"
> Now i'm just way confused,the HDD is totaly empty,but my computer keeps
> looking for files that don't exist and give error messages.
> I've started to wonder if there is some kind of memory system built in
> the BIOS(sorry guys i'm not really into computer so i don't know much
> about BIOS and stuff like that)
> If anybody can come up with some answer,goodness,i'd greatly appreciate
> it.
> (by the way.is thate a command that helps complete reset a
> computer(BIOS)?)
>
> thanks
>
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Huh??? You need to explain this. Are you saying you formatted a drive with
Vista on another machine, then you took the drive and installed it in your
machine? If that's the case the OS won't boot because all the hardware is
different.

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"akumageorges" <> wrote in message
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> yes i did format the HDD using another vista machine. And i thought my
> computer would see it as a brand new(empty) HDD and just go ahead and
> install VISTA but it's not the case.
> The problem with formatting during the Install is that my computer
> won't even let me get to the point were the install starts. It goes
> staright to the error message "winload.exe missing or corrupt"
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You need to include what you're replying to. You're posting to a Usenet
newsgroup and all I'm seeing is your current post. As I previously stated,
you need to get into your BIOS and check the boot order. To do this you
need to start pressing, either, Delete, F10, F8 or F2 when you boot to
access the BIOS screen. Different manufacturers use different keys. If you
reply to this make sure you include this and any other response. As I said,
we're posting from "microsoft.public.windows.vista.general", not techarena.

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