TheTechGuide Forum
General Category => Software => Topic started by: Slyone on May 18, 2005, 01:17:22 PM
-
Aight, well I'm attempting to make a customized bootable Win2kp cd using the tutorial on this site, but every time I burn one, I just get this on boot:
NTLDR is missing
Press Ctrl+Alt|Del to restart
Any idea's?
-
My bad, that's without cd boot. Booting off the cd I get:
BOOT: Couldn't find NTLDR
Please insert another disk
-
i have the same problem and have tried copying the missing file from the windows2k i386 folder and into the root folder for the cd but this didnt fix it.
can anyone help out with this because im having problem after problem with winxp pro (a couple of hundrad quid wasted there) so am going back to the only half decent windows ever released but i need to boot off the cd because my laptop doesnt have a floppy drive.
-
I've had a google and I find that the Nero 6.3 can create a boot cd by following the instructions found Here (http://\"http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=297\") although i also found that if you have a win98 or winME boot floppy then this works:
- go to nero smartsuite
- click "make bootable cd"
- when propted for files insert your win boot floppy and select all of the files
click next and choose the top option which reads the current boot floppy in the drive
- click next and continue with the burn which should clone the bootable floppy on a bootable cd.
one you have booted from the cd
- remove the boot cd and insert the windows cd
- go to your cd drive from the prompt which will be E:\ if your drive is normally D:\ or F:\ if the drive is normally E:\
- for windows2k type CD I386 and press enter
- then type WINNT which should start the setup program and then its a case of following the prompts.
if you dont have a boot floppy or a computer with a floppy drive to do this from then the other nero method Here (http://\"http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=297\") is worth a try although have not tried it myself because i found the one i just outlined
I know this doesnt help make the windows2k cd bootable but does provide a method of installing 2k on a system without a floppy drive which is one very good reason to want the 2k disc bootable in the first place :-)
I hope that this can help any of the readers here
-
oops!
in the last post i forgot to add that when booting from the boot cd you are asked to start WITH cd support or WITHOUT cd support - pick WITH cd support otherwise you wont be able to find the windows cd after you insert it.