ntldr is missing

[s.roman]

primary hard drive is empty, but secondary may have data on it. I'm
fairly sure the cd-rom drive isn't bootable since I can't get windows
xp cd to boot either, and it is first on the list of boot devices in
bios, followed by floppy, and I tried making floppy first as well,
with the same message ntldr is missing showing up every time.


On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:23:01 -0500, s.roman <s.roman at gmail.com> wrote:
> whenever I try to boot my computer from the ubuntu cd, or
> smartbootmanager floppy I recieve the message "NTLDR is missing. press
> ctrl-alt-del to restart". Does anyone know what I'd have to do to fix
> this? I checked around the computer and I'm fairly positive it doesn't
> have anything to do with the hardware. My specs are 2 PATA 20gb hard
> drives, pentium 3 1ghz, 512mb ram, Geforce 2 GTS. It's a HP Vectra
> VL400 MT according to the label. I'm not sure what motherboard model
> it has, but it is an intel 815 chipset. Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Roman
>