hi guys, my first post here and i have got a complex kinda question.

I had a Compaq Pentium 3 computer with a 20 gb hard drive. I had partitioned teh hard drive and was dual booting between Win2000 server and redhat linux 9.0.

what i am trying to do is, installing the sane hard disk in another Pentium 4 computer which was originally running windows 2000 professional. when i replace the hard disk i get the message

ntldr is missing

help plz ! thnk you

Hi there Sportsgeek , welcome to PCHF.

When switching the HD to an other pc , you have to reinstall windows , or windows trys to load the wrong settings and drivers for that pc.

But you shouldn't be getting an ntldr missing error though.

Did you replace or add the HD? And did you attach it as master (the end of the cable) , and set the jumper to master or cable select , if it wasn't already?

thnx joe for your greeting and reply

i replaced the HD and i am i attached it to the same place as my previous hard disk so i guess jumper and master/slave setting shud be the same as the previous one.

Then that should indeed still be setup correctly.
But you still need to reinstall windows after moving the HD to a new pc , you can't just keep using the windows install present from the previous pc.

If you need help with that , just give a yell.

but i was dual booting between Win2k server and Linux on my previous Pc where i has this Hard Drive installed.

now how do i re-install both the OS's ??

not sure about linux, but if its in a diferent machine u definatly need to reinstall windows. if linux doesnt work either, then i would say probably reinstall it also, but i have no linux experience, so mayby there is a way around it.

hehe, sorry, misread your post.

to reinstall them both, i would fdisk, delete and recreate your partitions, install windows, and install linux on the other partition.