A while back i notiiced that my computer began to mess up so i reformated it. After reformatting i and prepareing the windows installation , after copying the setup files ( the first part of installing windows) it would reboot but then give me an error saying NTLDR cannot find partiion(1) disk (0) .... or something along those lines So i put my hard drive in someone elses computer and was able to install it just fine. and puit it back in my computer but i still got the same error. So i sent the hard drive back in and when i got a new 1 i got the same error... so im really stuck help please (im forced to use an 8gb hard drive now)
You'd be best off just taking a baseball bat to it... Or you could just wait for the people who actually know about these things to post.
What you need to do is partition the sector 8 of the illiamatic filament on the drive, this is usually a very easy step. Try this and tell me if it works , sorry man, i have no idea what i am talkin about...
Are you sure it's trying to boot off of that drive and not a different one? Check your BIOS and drive settings and make certain you're trying to boot from the hard drive you have the OS installed on.
I've had this happen before. Read this: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q255220&ID=KB;EN-US;q255220
Like they've said, you might want to check you BIOS. What "BIOS" means is Basic Input Output System. That's the first thing your computer checks on whenever you apply power to it. It's the "system" that it uses to, on a basic level, check out what all of the input and output devices connected to it are doing. So, if your computer wants to start up, it needs to know what program to use to do that. In your case, that is Windows. Then, your computer wants to know where it can find Windows. In your case, that is your hard drive. This means that your basic input should be your hard drive, right? Because, I mean, Windows is your basic system, and it is on your hard drive, right? So how you make sure your BIOS is kosher with the whole Windows thing is: Once you install Windows on your Hard Drive, you should tell your computer to find its Input and Output information on the hard drive from now on. To do this, you have to access your BIOS settings. You can do that by pressing "Delete" (or whatever other button your individual computer may tell you to) when it's first booting up. It'll say something like "Press Del to enter setup" or "Press F2 to screw with BIOS" or anything like that. Then, once you're in the ugly-looking thing that changes your BIOS settings, you'll want to fidget around in there and try to find something that says what the computer looks for when it first tries to find an operating system. What you probably want to do is change its first option of finding an "OS" to "Hard Drive" or "HDD01...." etc. Yours probably is set to check the "CDROM" first. Just change it to whatever option most resembles the words Hard and Drive. That way, if you do have Windows installed on your hard drive, it'll find that operating system there before looking anywhere else and getting all screwed up. This probably wasn't all that informative for you, because you probably were way ahead of me on any of these topics, but I just wanted to break it down to you on a root level before people started confusing the hell out of the rest of us. Good luck, though.
Another thought is to check the jumper switches. There are often three options. Master, Slave, Select. Select is supposed to automatically determine if it can be Master or Slave. If it is the only hard drive, it should be set as Master or Select. But sometimes the "select" option doesn't work right and you need to force it into Master. That would explain why it worked when you plugged it into another PC. Try farting around w/ those settings. Another thought is you have a bent pin on your hard drive. Again, maybe explains why it plugged into another PC okay. Check to make sure that the cable is properly seated and that no pins are bent on the hard drive or mother board. Or try using a different cable all together, if you have one. Doesn't everybody have a spare hard drive cable?
