Yesterday my computer was very slow and was RESTARTING on its own so I DECIDED a clean up was required so I put all I wanted to keep on cds. When I tried formating it it would not boot from cd which I later resolved. I had to go into BIOS and switch the boot priority from floppy to cd rom. I booted it from cd and started the format but at 27% when copying files it said it could not copy a certain file so I tried reinstalling xp. I let it do it's thing again and it shut itself off in mid process of installing xp. I Turned it back on and NTLDR missing showed up and boot from cd no longer shows up anywhere. My guess this is a SERIOUSLY corrupted Windows but I don't know how to FIX this mumbo jumbo. Help would be much appreciated.May be your os cd was scratched, try another one. no problems came with any files at installation a bad installation would result this issue. May be at that time(27%) that file was not copied...

Using another computer create another copy of your os then install.Are you using an original, retail XP CD?Cd or Optical drive eror, try to changeQuote from: Techniquecian on November 11, 2009, 12:57:58 AM

Cd or Optical drive eror, try to change