installing windows on a Shuttle system

[MSE OP]

help please

situation is this:
tries to boot from optical drive with a windows install disk in it but then doesn't work, next I get the message "NTLDR is missing" press ctrl+alt+del
to reboot

I have a SATA drive as the only hard drive installed, it was in my last computer and ran fine, has about 160GB of data currently on it, no OS directories though
a DVD burner drive as the only optical drive
the hard drive and optical drive do show up in the bios
I have tried two different windows XP install cd's and get same response
If I could get a windows recuse disk made like the ones Windows98 makes that would be worth a shot, tried to do a search on the net but didn't find anything like that

[woodpusher]

I have had this problem before and the following worked for me...
1- Insert the Windows XP bootable CD into the computer.
2- When prompted to press any key to boot from the CD, press any key.
3- Once in the Windows XP setup menu press the "R" key to repair Windows.
4- Log into your Windows installation by pressing the "1" key and pressing enter.
5- You will then be prompted for your administrator password, enter that password.
6- Copy the below two files to the root directory of the primary hard disk. In the below example we are copying these files from the CD-ROM drive letter "E". This letter may be different on your computer.

copy e:\i386\ntldr c:\
copy e:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\

7- Once both of these files have been successfully copied, remove the CD from the computer and reboot.

From: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm

[MSE OP]

I can't get it to read the cd yet...

[tsehou]

You sure you set the BIOS to boot from the CD or DVD ROM first, and not the hard drive?

[MSE OP]

it was a bad optical drive, bought a new one and problem solved