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One of my computers got infected w/ a trojan horse. Needed to do some cleanup anyway so I decided to reformat the hard drive. When I tried to on the infected computer, it wouldn't let me. So I removed the drive, installed it on another computer as a slave, and formatted it as a slave. I reinstalled Windows XP Home edition on it, reinstalled it on the original computer and cranked it up. Windows won't load. Message reads something like "NTLDR missing press ctrl + alt + delete to restart". I've read other posts and haven't found much more help. When I go into bios before XP tries to load, and choose to start w/ the CD drive before the hard drive and have the XP install disk in the drive, nothing happens, it just reads the same error. The problem computer doesn't have a floppy drive. I put a floppy on a serial port and tried to run a boot disk, but bios doesn't recognize the drive at all. The only thing that will run out of bios is a some type of system utility. Help!!!!

You have to install windows on the same computer you use it on. What happened, when you installed windows on the other computer, it had all the drivers for the other computer's motherboard, now that you moved the hard drive to a new motherboard, windows wont work because it doesnt have the correct drivers installed. This used not to be the case (98SE comes to mind). Just reinstall windows on the computer you will be using the hard drive with and you should be fine.