What is NTLDR and where is it?
I have XP running on one PC1. I removed the hard drive from PC1 and hooked it up to PC2 as a slave drive also running XP. On PC2 which now has the HD from PC1 I copied the entire contents from the HD from PC1 to an external drive so that I would have a copy of the OS from PC1. Now I remove the HD from PC2 and hooked up another HD also as a slave drive on PC2. (This new drive was just formatted using Windows formatting utility). I copied the OS from the external drive to this new HD. I have done this many times without any problems and I could always use either HD on PC1. This time for whatever reason beyond me when I tried to use the new HD on PC1 I get NTLRD is missing and I cannot boot.
I went back to PC2 which works and did a search for NTLRD but it couldn't be found on the system. So how does PC2 boot up if NTLRD does not exist and why am I told that when I try to boot up PC1 using the new HD I'm told that NTLRD is missing?
I have XP running on one PC1. I removed the hard drive from PC1 and hooked it up to PC2 as a slave drive also running XP. On PC2 which now has the HD from PC1 I copied the entire contents from the HD from PC1 to an external drive so that I would have a copy of the OS from PC1. Now I remove the HD from PC2 and hooked up another HD also as a slave drive on PC2. (This new drive was just formatted using Windows formatting utility). I copied the OS from the external drive to this new HD. I have done this many times without any problems and I could always use either HD on PC1. This time for whatever reason beyond me when I tried to use the new HD on PC1 I get NTLRD is missing and I cannot boot.
I went back to PC2 which works and did a search for NTLRD but it couldn't be found on the system. So how does PC2 boot up if NTLRD does not exist and why am I told that when I try to boot up PC1 using the new HD I'm told that NTLRD is missing?