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BuDDaH · 01-11-2004, 06:22 PM

No, thats not what happened.. (And I'd like you peple to QUIT with the "That might be a virus" answers. Talk about being PARANOID.)
What most likely happened was that you just SHUT the machine off without giving it time to "write-back" the information it either "Swapped" or was in the RAM.

So that information was "missplaced" because it wasn't in the assigned place, so when you booted back up, Windows couldn't find the bootstrap ( the info WindowsXP writes for itself to tell how to read the FAT and which OS and so on..)

You shouldn't have reformatted the hard-drive because you did more harm than good, you knocked out the WHOLE OS and the BIOS then couldn't read the POST info, so when you reinstalled the newer OS, the OS detected your old partitions and searched fro the bootstrap.

NTLDR ( or windowsNT LoaDer) was still at the head of the hard-drive but with no info of the current OS, so when you reinstalled the 2K, it over written it with the new info.

Don't stress about it, it looks like you just had learned something new the hard way..

01-11-2004, 06:22 PM	#6 (permalink)
BuDDaH The Matrix had a point... Moderator Emeritus Location: 10th Mountain ASB Fort Drum, N.Y.	No, thats not what happened.. (And I'd like you peple to QUIT with the "That might be a virus" answers. Talk about being PARANOID.) What most likely happened was that you just SHUT the machine off without giving it time to "write-back" the information it either "Swapped" or was in the RAM. So that information was "missplaced" because it wasn't in the assigned place, so when you booted back up, Windows couldn't find the bootstrap ( the info WindowsXP writes for itself to tell how to read the FAT and which OS and so on..) You shouldn't have reformatted the hard-drive because you did more harm than good, you knocked out the WHOLE OS and the BIOS then couldn't read the POST info, so when you reinstalled the newer OS, the OS detected your old partitions and searched fro the bootstrap. NTLDR ( or windowsNT LoaDer) was still at the head of the hard-drive but with no info of the current OS, so when you reinstalled the 2K, it over written it with the new info. Don't stress about it, it looks like you just had learned something new the hard way.. __________________ I'd hit that so hard whoever could pull me out would become King of England!