Ntldr missing after formatting the hard drive

[Dominic8]

I am having the problem of "NTLDR is missing" when formatting my hard drive. When I boot my Windows XP CD, the drive starts but nothing happens and the above message appears anyway.

For your information my drive works very well (had tried in another), and I had tried with two different versions of Windows XP Pro and the result is substantially the same.

I searched the net all day but nothing helped me. Do you have any solution to this?

[Alexisus]

Use TestDisk and rebuilds a MBR.

[Dominic8]

I didn't find any test disk? I have looked in "hard drive tools". Where is it ? How to use it?

[Alexisus]

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[Fryderyk]

Download Powermax.exe utility and do a quick test of your hdd. If you get one or more error(s), do a low-level format with Powermax.