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Well I think I am getting somewhe I put the drive into a desktop and
formatted it using Partition Manager. It WAS true that the XP installation process couldnt find a drive to format by itself, which is a bit surprising. It then goes easily into the M700 (on which as I say I have successfully installed XP before as an exercise in seeing whether another drive was working: I should have held on to that drive!!) and XP installs easily but the whole process stops at first reboot with the message NTLDR is missing Apparently (googling it) this means that you have to boot off a Windows 98 floppy (!) and do a SYS C: Amazingly this is supposed to work on XP installations (as well as 2000 ones) But it doesnt on mine, I just receive the error message that SYS cant find a system in the place where it is supposed to look which is pretty unusual as XP's installation should only be able to put it in one place! But redoing this procedure renders no improvement and nor does formatting the FAT32 drive onto which I am doing the install as an NTFS drive. Still the same error message. But amazingly, booting off a floppy does show that the install process had put all the proper files in the proper place in the windows directory. I know that this drive has errors on it but they are comparatively minuscule and shouldnt effect Nor does recovery console or the repair MBR or repair BOOT utilities there help. I have definitely seen that "CAN'T FIND NTLDR" before and wonder what I can be doing wrong? I am running out of ideas now and am wondering if the drive is faulty. |
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