Re: Please help ntldr is missing

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:11:52 +0530, akumageorges
<> wrote:

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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

If you formatted the drive on a Windows XP computer, the boot sector
that's written on the drive will be for Windows XP. So if you try to
boot the computer from that drive, Windows XP ntldr will be executed.
Since there is no operating system installed, ntldr will be missing.

>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.

Sounds like you have hardware problems. Try doing a system memory test
(memtest86+ utility).

>
>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?

Normally, formatting of the drive is performed during installation of
the operating system. So, if you're installing Vista, do the
formatting during Vista setup.

>
>Please help