Compaq 5150 - New Mobo (Asus A7N266-VM) Existing HDD - ERROR: NTLDR missing

[bdwzsdm]

Hello

My friend ask me to look at her computer (should have said no) because is smelled funny and had quit working. I discovered that the cpu fan had come off during a move and fried the MoBo.

I bought a new Asus A7N266-VM board and all the proper supporting chips. I reused the existing drives becouse there is some important data she wanted to maintain.

When I start the machine I get a Ntldr missing error.

I have gone into the bios and played with the drive properties but the only thing I can accomplish is to get that error to be replaced by "Disk Error" (progress ?).

The system is running xp but It is my (amature) oppinion that it is a bios issue.

Please !!!!!HELP!!!!!

[Scott Tiger]

I know this sounds stupid but you don't by chance have a floppy in the floppy drive do you? That would cause that.

(it always pays to rule out the simple things first)

[bdwzsdm]

That ia a valid question and I wish the answer was yes.

But the drive is empty.

Thanks

[bdwzsdm]

In addition I went to bootdisk .com and downloaded the boot disks for xp and used the repair utility to try to repair the boot sector.

didnt work for me either