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Old 12th Sep 2007, 11:13
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Hi guys,

I've got a new harddrive, which was originally a slave to my 80gb harddrive.
On the new harddrive, when I try to boot from it it says "NTLDR" is missing.
I can't boot from CD. I can't access the Recovery Console.

Does anyone know how I can fix this so that I can install a fresh copy of WinXP on the new harddrive.

Thanks.
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Old 12th Sep 2007, 11:16
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I have never had to troubleshoot it but Microsoft has a support article on it.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318728
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Old 12th Sep 2007, 11:20
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window's solutions only work if i can boot from CD and get into the recovery console, which i can't.
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Old 13th Sep 2007, 10:06
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There is a roundabout way of booting from the HDD where you create a DOS partition that is bootable, copy the Windows CD onto it and then run the installer after rebooting, but you would need to boot from a DOS floppy for that, or put the HDD into another PC.
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