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unable to install XP on new HD
Posted by elly on December 12th, 2007


Hello,
After installing a new HD to replace non-working HD on an older PC I
proceeded to install XP Pro but a few minutes into setup I got a message that
a file could not be extracted from the cd I think it was cab.driver or
something like that I cannot acces that information now, I retried but could
not be done so the next option was to exit setup and try again which I did,
here comes the problem when I tried to reboot to start XP set up again the
system will go past the bios boot but stops before loading XP from CD rom I
get a black screen with the following message NTLDR missing press alt ctrl
del to restart, but It will not work I keep on getting the same message
everytime, I have tried a different CD rom but the same, I am stuck not being
able to get past this problem. My PC is a pentium 4, bios seems to be
working ok I
setted it up to boot from cd and the new HD has been detected. Please help
Thank you for your support
Elly


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