Hi guys just looking for some computer knowledge as mine has run out. Setting up a pc for my mate from bits he has got from work (bits being thrown out) have done a few of these in the past as I have a multi computer setup so I know quite a bit what im doing. Unfortunately this time something has cropped up that I don’t understand so I thought I would ask to see if anyone would have any idea.

Turned pc on and it says NTLDR missing please press ctr, alt, delete to restart. Press it same msg.

I have wiped the hard drive and installed a copy of windows on it using it as a slave on my pc. All works fine can open both XP desktop (mine) and win7 (slave) but when I put the hard drive back into the other pc it comes up with the same msg. I tried a few different combo’s of pc’s, ram, hard drives and it seems to only be when its working as a slave that it will work.

Then I put my hard drive into his pc to see if it was the pc itself that wont work and as soon as the windows loading logo comes on it restarts itself.

Am I missing something big? Is the pc buggered? Is the HD buggered? I dunno.

If you could help I would be most grateful!

Muchos thanks