Ok, I might have screwed this one up big time. I really hope someone can help me. I know most of what I'm doing but I'm not too technical so please try to explain things in simpler terms.
I have an Acer Aspire 3000 laptop that originally came with Windows XP.
I took out the hard drive, plugged it into another computer using a ide-usb cable and formatted the hard drive completely.
Then I tried to install Windows 98. However, since the laptop has wifi and 98 doesn't support that, it failed to complete the install.
So I took the hard drive out again, plugged it into my computer with the cable and formatted it again. For some reason, this time, it formatted my 80Gb hard drive into a 2Gb hard drive. I don't know how to recover it. I formatted it again and it still says 2Gb (actually, it says 1.99Gb)
I put the hard drive back into the laptop and tried to re-install XP. It just will not work. It keeps saying "ntldr is missing" which doesn't make sense since the hard drive is formatted.
I went to the bios and selected to boot the dvd drive before the hard drive. It still says "ntldr is missing"
I tried this 20 times. One of the times, it actually started to install but halfway through, it stopped and again said "ntldr is missing"
Please help!
Thanks a lot!
I have an Acer Aspire 3000 laptop that originally came with Windows XP.
I took out the hard drive, plugged it into another computer using a ide-usb cable and formatted the hard drive completely.
Then I tried to install Windows 98. However, since the laptop has wifi and 98 doesn't support that, it failed to complete the install.
So I took the hard drive out again, plugged it into my computer with the cable and formatted it again. For some reason, this time, it formatted my 80Gb hard drive into a 2Gb hard drive. I don't know how to recover it. I formatted it again and it still says 2Gb (actually, it says 1.99Gb)
I put the hard drive back into the laptop and tried to re-install XP. It just will not work. It keeps saying "ntldr is missing" which doesn't make sense since the hard drive is formatted.
I went to the bios and selected to boot the dvd drive before the hard drive. It still says "ntldr is missing"
I tried this 20 times. One of the times, it actually started to install but halfway through, it stopped and again said "ntldr is missing"
Please help!
Thanks a lot!