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I'm running Vista Ultimate on a Dell XPS M2010. You'd think that these kind
of bugs would be worked out by the Microsoft Technicians by now. I've tried
a dozen times to install this one and got the same message. Also 3 hours out
of the box this machine wouldn't boot up. In the boot session I'd get a
message that said "Missing NTLDR File" Hit Control-Alt-Delete, of course
this did nothing. I called Dell and they wanted me to reload all the
software from scratch. This laptop was about $7,000.00 - reload your
software was NOT what I wanted to hear. After reading up on that problem it
seems they know why the problem is cropping up but seem to be doing nothing
about it. If it happens again I'm just going to put it back in the box and
send it back.

$7,000 dollar laptop, what are the specs on that?
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Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"Alaska Computer Works" <Alaska Computer >
wrote in message news:FAA1ACCC-67CF-4CBD-B652-...
> I'm running Vista Ultimate on a Dell XPS M2010. You'd think that these
> kind
> of bugs would be worked out by the Microsoft Technicians by now. I've
> tried
> a dozen times to install this one and got the same message. Also 3 hours
> out
> of the box this machine wouldn't boot up. In the boot session I'd get a
> message that said "Missing NTLDR File" Hit Control-Alt-Delete, of course
> this did nothing. I called Dell and they wanted me to reload all the
> software from scratch. This laptop was about $7,000.00 - reload your
> software was NOT what I wanted to hear. After reading up on that problem
> it
> seems they know why the problem is cropping up but seem to be doing
> nothing
> about it. If it happens again I'm just going to put it back in the box
> and
> send it back.

"Alaska Computer Works" wrote:

> I'm running Vista Ultimate on a Dell XPS M2010. You'd think that these kind
> of bugs would be worked out by the Microsoft Technicians by now. I've tried
> a dozen times to install this one and got the same message. Also 3 hours out
> of the box this machine wouldn't boot up. In the boot session I'd get a
> message that said "Missing NTLDR File" Hit Control-Alt-Delete, of course
> this did nothing. I called Dell and they wanted me to reload all the
> software from scratch. This laptop was about $7,000.00 - reload your
> software was NOT what I wanted to hear. After reading up on that problem it
> seems they know why the problem is cropping up but seem to be doing nothing
> about it. If it happens again I'm just going to put it back in the box and
> send it back.

You didn't plug in a flash drive or USB drive did you?
They can cause the boot order to be out of order and cause the Missing NTLDR
File" error if they are boot able and the BIOS is set to boot from them
before the HD.

Here's a link to the Dell site for this laptop. This person must've maxed
this puppy out cause it starts at $3,000...

http://www.dell.com/content/products...=19&l=en&s=dhs

Lang

"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <> wrote in message
news:...
> $7,000 dollar laptop, what are the specs on that?
> --
> Andre
> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
> "Alaska Computer Works" <Alaska Computer >
> wrote in message
> news:FAA1ACCC-67CF-4CBD-B652-...
>> I'm running Vista Ultimate on a Dell XPS M2010. You'd think that these
>> kind
>> of bugs would be worked out by the Microsoft Technicians by now. I've
>> tried
>> a dozen times to install this one and got the same message. Also 3 hours
>> out
>> of the box this machine wouldn't boot up. In the boot session I'd get a
>> message that said "Missing NTLDR File" Hit Control-Alt-Delete, of course
>> this did nothing. I called Dell and they wanted me to reload all the
>> software from scratch. This laptop was about $7,000.00 - reload your
>> software was NOT what I wanted to hear. After reading up on that problem
>> it
>> seems they know why the problem is cropping up but seem to be doing
>> nothing
>> about it. If it happens again I'm just going to put it back in the box
>> and
>> send it back.
>
>