Hi Shane,,, seems you are right on the money...formatted on a XP-Pro
laptop..the part that loss me is that I don't know anything about a fat32
partition. I simply plugged the HD into a usb external connector and
formatted the drive. nothing showed on the drive after formatting. IS there a
special way I can reformat the HD on my laptop so it will work when I try to
build a ME desktop?
"Pogle" wrote:

David H. Lipman wrote:
From: "Ralph"

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?

Thanking you in advance


Ralph

Windows ME is a Win9x based OS and there is NO NTLDR which is a part
of the NT Based OS.

I presume you are confusing Windows 2000 with Windows ME and your
problem is with Windows 2000 (aka; Win2K).

Seems the opposite way the two systems tend to be confused, David. For a
minute there I was thionking this is the old 'trying to install SP4 on Win
Me' issue, only I don't see that it'd get that far. Perhaps Ralph does mean
Win Me, but the disk was incorrectly formatted, something like it was
formatted in an NTFS system without hiding the new FAT32 partition, i.e. as
a dual boot starting from XP's boot.ini? If it was made bootable in the
process I imagine that would occur.


Shane