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I am trying to install xp home on computer for my brother-in-law. It is a fresh install and I used the Seagate utl disk that came with the drive to fromat.

When I put the xp install disk in it loads some files (about 10sec worth) and then says: setupdd.sys could not be loaded error code 4.

Then if I let it reboot and try and boot from the cd it says ntldr is missing.

I am trying to get this done by tonight so he can take it with him college so I need help asap.

thanks,

radbrad

p.s. when did the forum move, I haven't been around in awhile

could be a bad copy of windows xp. try another cd and see what happens. im not saying anything dealing with warez because its not allowed you and most likely i will get booted out.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;330181

Specs?

Also, I think you can deleate the other thread to get rid of it.

Manta

Oh Yeah - and this sould likely have gone in the free clinic as well. Yer battin' 1000

The Commport still exists at Delphi. Its just that this is now the official site

How large is the drive? You might want to attempt another re-install and delete all existing partitions.

that usually happens when there's a floppy disk in the drive, or other unbootable devices.

It happens when the OS is not completely installed. Ntldr is the boot loader for XP - if the install didn't finish, it isn't there (on the HDD).

I wanted him to check hardware so we could see if what he has is incompatable with XP.

Then we could move on to loooking at specific parts (like a HDD with a bad boot sector)

Manta