Thanks Ben, I'll try it if I can find someone with a working floppy. I'm
guessing that I could buy a usb version to attach to my XP laptop. the floppy
that I have is on the lame computer that I'm trying to revive. Think I could
install the me boot files to a cd or flash drive and boot to it?
LASTLY THANK YOU ALL David, Corday, Pogle, John, & Ben,,[YOUSE as we say in
chilly Wisconsin] for your insight. I understand so much more because of the
thinking you have shared.
"Ben Myers" wrote:

"Ralph" wrote in message ...
my computer got all garbaged up so for a fresh start ,I removed my hd and
formated it on another computer. now when I reboot with the WIN ME disk I get
the NTLDR is missing message.
I note that my cd rom is listed as secondary slave. Could that be an issue?
it worked in that config before I reformatted.[ the master cd rom died a
while back and i disconnected it [ leaving the second cd rom in place] after
removing the hd for reformat SOOOOO
how do I get my comp running on Win ME again?

Try creating a fresh Windows ME boot floppy.

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

Ben