windows: NTLDR not found

[Liyun Yu]

Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

>
> Are you saying that in the BIOS the disk may be "Type 42" or whatever 
> and I may be inserting a "Type 43" in its place?
>
It seems to me that the "NTLRD" error indicated there was a 
communication problem
between the BIOS and the hard disk drive, if the same drive booted ok 
from a different
hardware/CPU-Box. 

If you can see the current disk, from BIOS on the non-working laptop, 
with the correct hard disk
size updated, maybe the BIOS was updated. If the BIOS was showing the 
size wrong,
then the BIOS was not updated its information or not refresh it memory.

If you have a floppy drive on the non-working laptop, is it possible to 
boot off the
windows 98 floppy, then use the command line command to fix the MBR to 
see if that
will work on the non-booting laptop?

I would not recommend to use the recovery CD from the manufacture since
that will erase all of your current data and settings from the disk drive.

Also, is there any BIOS updates available to the non-working laptop?

If all of the efforts in the BIOS direction won't work, I would consider 
to use
the Windows installation CD to fix this problem from the non-working laptop.
- Booting from  the Windows Installation
- Select Repair option
- Windows will try to find the original Windows installation and remount 
it with MBR corrections.

Unfortunately I did not have a Thinkpad at handy, I tested it from my 
dell laptop
and it was showing that the HDD size changes when I change HDD.

Liyun