hey guys I'm fixing a computer, its a sony vaio, it comes with the installations disks, I have replaced the hard drive cuz the one it had was not working, now it gets about ten minutes in to the installation the it says "an Error occurred". when I restart it says cannot find NTLDR, can any you guys help me out. thanks
rc_kobra 0 Newbie Poster
rc_kobra 0 Newbie Poster
Any one?? come guys I need some help, I have candy..lol
Dortz 38 Posting Whiz in Training
give us a chance at least...
There's no info you can give on what kind of an error occured?
rc_kobra 0 Newbie Poster
give us a chance at least...
There's no info you can give on what kind of an error occured?
sorry dude I didn't mean to be rude, you see I have a deadline which I need to meet thats all, I was insatlling the OS on a new hd when it said an error occured , then is restated and it said cannot find Ntldr,
ithelp 757 Posting Virtuoso Banned
I had simmilar problem, boot in safe mode and install ntl*.dll
dyamond 0 Newbie Poster
You dont say which OS you are using.
Try these KB's from MS and see if it helps.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314057
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318728
rc_kobra 0 Newbie Poster
You dont say which OS you are using.
Try these KB's from MS and see if it helps.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314057
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318728
it was windows xp for a sony vaio
caperjack 875 I hate 20 Questions Team Colleague
reboot to the winxp disk to do a fresh install of windows ,delete the existing partition and do a full format not the quick one and reload winxp
edit ,never mind i see you have recovery cd's ,your drive is new did you get a install utilities disk with it ,use it to make the disk ready for install first .if you didn't get disk go to manufacturers web site for utilities disk
dyamond 0 Newbie Poster
Causes of NTLDR Errors
There are a number of possible causes for NTLDR errors, including the most common "NTLDR is missing" error message. The most common reason for this error is when your PC is trying to boot from a hard drive or flash drive that is not properly configured to be booted from; in other words, it's trying to boot from a non-bootable source. This also would apply to media on an optical drive or floppy drive that you're trying to boot from.Other possible causes include corrupt and misconfigured files, hard drive and operating system upgrade issues, corrupt hard drive sectors, an outdated BIOS, and damaged or loose IDE cables.
This link explains about missing NTLDR in Win XP and possible solutions.
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/ntldrmissingxp.htm
rc_kobra 0 Newbie Poster
reboot to the winxp disk to do a fresh install of windows ,delete the existing partition and do a full format not the quick one and reload winxp
edit ,never mind i see you have recovery cd's ,your drive is new did you get a install utilities disk with it ,use it to make the disk ready for install first .if you didn't get disk go to manufacturers web site for utilities disk
Yeah I got the install utiltites, but I talked to a guy form sony and he said becaues the HD to big it was not compatible
caperjack 875 I hate 20 Questions Team Colleague
Yeah I got the install utiltites, but I talked to a guy form sony and he said becaues the HD to big it was not compatible
what was not compatible the utility or the hard drive was to big for you computer .
rc_kobra 0 Newbie Poster
what was not compatible the utility or the hard drive was to big for you computer .
the dude said because it was not the original HD that it was not compatible with the PC (sony pcv-rx640) the hd is a maxstor ata/100 160 gb, he suggested I set the bios to the defaults settings, I tried but it didn't work.
the original HG was 60 GB
rc_kobra 0 Newbie Poster
I had simmilar problem, boot in safe mode and install ntl*.dll
thank for the advice but the thing is I'm installing on a new HD so there is no OS thus no safe mode
rc_kobra 0 Newbie Poster
This link explains about missing NTLDR in Win XP and possible solutions.
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/ntldrmissingxp.htm
thanks for the link I check them out to see if there is any thing that can help
caperjack 875 I hate 20 Questions Team Colleague
the dude said because it was not the original HD that it was not compatible with the PC (sony pcv-rx640) the hd is a maxstor ata/100 160 gb, he suggested I set the bios to the defaults settings, I tried but it didn't work.
the original HG was 60 GB
there are bios limits for big hdd. not sure what yours is ,so it maybe that you bios doesn't recognize the bigger hdd.
rc_kobra 0 Newbie Poster
there are bios limits for big hdd. not sure what yours is ,so it maybe that you bios doesn't recognize the bigger hdd.
is there any way I can find out the limits to this PC?, it is kind of old for '03, like it gets to disk 3 which is the last recovery disk before it gives the error
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
it probably has a 120 or 160gb limit, maybe even at 60 or 80gb limit
rc_kobra 0 Newbie Poster
it probably has a 120 or 160gb limit, maybe even at 60 or 80gb limit
I think it might, it is kind of an old pc, form 03, the new hd is 160, when I go in to the advanced setting for recovery there is one option to format and partition the drive, it had a little drop down box that has the the size of partitions you can make, it has 16-20-30 GB thats it.
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