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looking for some help...
hello all, im new to the forum.
im having some trouble with a pc i just had built.
currently, there is nothing on the hard disk, freshly reformatted. the boot disk is set to the cd drive inside of which is a windows XP install cd.
when i start up the box a prompt reading "Press any key to boot from CD..." appears.
if i press it, i get to the windows installer setup screen. if i try to install windows i get to the license agreement where i have to press F8 to accept. only problem is, none of the F# buttons work. ive tried 3 keyboards, usb and serial. the F keys dont work in the BIOS of anywhere else i can get myself into.
ok, back to the prompt reading "Press any key to boot from CD..." appears.
if i press nothing, after a few seconds two more lines of text comes up... the first says "NTLDR is missing" followed by "Press ctrl+Alt+del to restart"
ive tried various repair tools, tried reformatting, and nothing works. i dont know which problem to attack first, the F keys not working or the NTLDR problem.
if you are gracious enough to try and help me out, please dumb everything down a little bit. ill be watching this post so if theres any information that would help you help me shoot away and you should get a near immediate response.
thanks in advance.
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