Yikes! NTLDR is missing. Press CTRL + ALT + DEL to restart

[Gen.Ben]

Okay guys. I am having a big problem, I cant even boot up into windows.

I was running out of hard drive space. I have a 160GB (primary) and a 250GB (secondary)

I wanted to ghost the 160 to the 250.

Okay,

With norton ghost I sucessfully cloned the 160GB hard drive to the 250GB.

I rebooted.

After the first load up screen, my computer shows information about my drives and whatnot. After that information is a message.

NTLDR is missing
Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart

So now I am sitting here, typing on my uber crap computer.

Please help FAST!!!! I need this to be fixed as soon as possible!

PLEASE HELP ME VILLUNS!

I cant even get into windows.

[Dog]

Stick in your XP CD, boot and repair .......

Or visit this site:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318728

[Bull]

[quote="StrontiumDog";p="22439"]Stick in your XP CD, boot and repair .......

Or visit this site:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318728[/quote]

Yeah.. What he said.

Otherwise, Re-partition the partition, telling it that it's the boot sector; re-format it,
when finished, restore the ghost image. That's why I don't care for Ghost.

Acronis True Image much better program.

[Gen.Ben]

[quote="StrontiumDog";p="22439"]
Stick in your XP CD, boot and repair .......

Or visit this site:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318728
[/quote]

I am attemping this now... I really need this to work or I am royaly screwed.

[shovelnose]

install ubuntu.


no more windows errors!

[Gen.Ben]

AH!!!!!

I did a repair install of windows. After it finished my system rebooted, When i saw the Windows XP loading screen I was like hooray!

Then....

My computer restarted while windows was loading, then it tried to load windows up again, after that I got this lovely screen:

[img=http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/6868 ... ev3.th.jpg]

I tried booting normally, and in safe mode.

Still nothing.

I feel really mad right now as all i wanted to do was move windows and my files to another bigger hard drive.

I really do not want to reinstall windows and start all over again, and re install my program collection.

Please advise me what to do..





[quote="shovelnose";p="22643"]
install ubuntu.


no more windows errors!
[/quote]

I would install linux only if it could play windows based games smoothly.

[Gen.Ben]

Wait... Can you play windows games smoothly on linux with wine?

[Dog]

Personally, I would have left Windows and associated files on the 160Gb drive as is.

I would have moved all the work files, documents, music etc onto the 250Gb drive.

Steam could also easily be moved over onto to the 250Gb drive.....

[Gen.Ben]

[quote="StrontiumDog";p="22653"]
Personally, I would have left Windows and associated files on the 160Gb drive as is.

I would have moved all the work files, documents, music etc onto the 250Gb drive.

Steam could also easily be moved over onto to the 250Gb drive.....
[/quote]

Well whats done is done.

Right now i have a computer that wont boot into windows. And I need a fix.

[Dog]

Can you switch the 160Gb drive to master and boot from it again?

[Gen.Ben]

Eh, I just reformatted

At least I still have all my files.

Time to have a long night of installing, sleepy morning here I come.

[regis]

You CAN run STEAM through WINE, but I don't know how smooth it will run. It sometimes takes a good amount of configuration to get it working.

[Gen.Ben]

[quote="regis";p="22944"]
You CAN run STEAM through WINE, but I don't know how smooth it will run. It sometimes takes a good amount of configuration to get it working.
[/quote]
I guess it will be fine to stick with windows.

[regis]

Windows is fine (for most.)

Plus like it's been said in the pas..
It is not suggested to fully and/or immediately switch over the Linux. I'd say the differences out-weigh the similarities between the 2 OS'es.

Get a separate partition and dual-boot Win/Linux and get used to it first.
**Hint** Linux works best when you are able to work in the command line, rather than the GUI.

-Reeg

[Gen.Ben]

[quote="regis";p="22976"]
Windows is fine (for most.)

Plus like it's been said in the pas..
It is not suggested to fully and/or immediately switch over the Linux. I'd say the differences out-weigh the similarities between the 2 OS'es.

Get a separate partition and dual-boot Win/Linux and get used to it first.
**Hint** Linux works best when you are able to work in the command line, rather than the GUI.

-Reeg
[/quote]

On my older PC I was running SuSE 10.1

It was fine for what I needed it for...

And I was just using it until i could find a copy of Windows. But windows can game without hassle.... I don't program anything... So I really have no need for linux. I guess I will stick to the good ol' M$