NTLDR missing Megatouch

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Just formatted an HD and copied from CD all files to it and installed with new key and it gives me missing NTLDR error press CTL ALT DEL to restart... i do that and I just get the same...........Help me out guys... Machine Is A EVO unit im trying to load the software on a formatted HD I had here I got a CD and key package to update it
Thanks
 
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Just formatted an HD and copied from CD all files to it and installed with new key and it gives me missing NTLDR error press CTL ALT DEL to restart... i do that and I just get the same...........Help me out guys... Machine Is A EVO unit im trying to load the software on a formatted HD I had here I got a CD and key package to update it
Thanks

I don't know anything about Megatouch units but that sounds like the message you get when you don't have a properly formatted boot drive. Formatting and copying files to an NT hard drive for example will give you that message.
 
yeah. does your machine have access to a CDROM? or can you take the hard drive out and put it in another machine say booting with a Linux boot CD?
it's pretty trivial to add NTLDR to your hard drive if it's not installed. but you need to either boot off CD directly or put your HD in a system where you can copy the boot sector over from another machine.
 
what do you mean NT drive??

It sounds like this is meant to be a bootable drive and you can't create bootable drives by just copying files to it.

Its complaining because it can see files there but can't boot to the drive that you've created.
 
this mach dosent have and theres no room for a cd rom..... I copied all files from the merit CD to the HDD........ Where would I get the linux boot files ... shouldnt they be on the CD with the rest of them ???
 
sure you can the boot code is on the first 446 bytes of the bootable hard drive.
if your using linux

say you have a "bootable" windows drive,let's call it /dev/sdb
and you want to make /dev/sdc bootable
dd if=/dev/sdb bs=446 count=1 of=/dev/sdc

on /dev/sdc obviuosly the rest of the NT code must exist on the drive, but it sounds like he already copyied the data onto the drive.. just need to make sure the bootsector code is there, (also needs to be marked bootable) which is another simple thing.

if you have a windows install disk for say XP, simply put it in the CDROm (without swapping disk) and run
mbr /r or
whatever the equivalent command is for newer versions of linux

It sounds like this is meant to be a bootable drive and you can't create bootable drives by just copying files to it.

Its complaining because it can see files there but can't boot to the drive that you've created.
 
heck I can send you the boot sector now that I think of it I can just extract it from one of my windows XP Virtual Machines.

You'll need to get a bootable linux CD. YOu can download a bootable Linux CD from
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/

it's a bootable PenTesting distribution. You'll need the ISO then burn the ISO to a DVD drive.
once you get that far you'll need to take your megatouch hard drive and install it into ANOTHER computer that has a CDROM drive. but first things first, get the backtrack iso file and burn it to a DVD

this mach dosent have and theres no room for a cd rom..... I copied all files from the merit CD to the HDD........ Where would I get the linux boot files ... shouldnt they be on the CD with the rest of them ???
 
heck I can send you the boot sector now that I think of it I can just extract it from one of my windows XP Virtual Machines.

You'll need to get a bootable linux CD. YOu can download a bootable Linux CD from
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/

it's a bootable PenTesting distribution. You'll need the ISO then burn the ISO to a DVD drive.
once you get that far you'll need to take your megatouch hard drive and install it into ANOTHER computer that has a CDROM drive. but first things first, get the backtrack iso file and burn it to a DVD

the backtrack stuff all looks greek.....gnome kde???? 5 5r1-5 ??? vmware ??? 32 64?? iso direcvt torremt ???? if i load that file to the drive will the mega boot??? if so what configuration of this file do I need to get this to work ??
thanks
 
actually my bad. it's late at night and I'm not thinking straight.. don't do that command

what I told you to do replaces the inital l boot sector loader, NTDLR is one of the files that should have got copied to the system.

Can you put your hard drive back in another machine and do a listing of the base drive?
 
actually my bad. it's late at night and I'm not thinking straight.. don't do that command

what I told you to do replaces the inital l boot sector loader, NTDLR is one of the files that should have got copied to the system.

Can you put your hard drive back in another machine and do a listing of the base drive?

i have the HD and the CD both hooked to this machine Im on now...what do you need to see,???? The boot folder on the merit CD is empty...whats with that or are those files hidden??? I also tried hooking a cd rom drive direct to the megatouch and tried having the game boot and run right from the CD and i didnt get the error i did before but it still wouldnt run ......

what do you need to see Ill copy and past any files from either cd or HDD here for you

Thanks
 
unless you already use linux you're going to have lots of questions going that route...

can you set your computer to boot that hdd and if so do you get the same ntldr error?

go to the command prompt at the root of your cd (ie: "d:\") and type:
dir /a *.* > dir.txt
And post the text from dir.txt

from that we can tell if your cd needs to "install" on your hdd or not

in case its really just a simple file missing (unlikely)
http://gwarble.com/NTLDR


EDIT to answer last question: do the same as above but on the root of the hdd, or:
dir /a E:\*.* > dir.txt
where "E:" is the hdd in question...

edit: does the megatouch have a usb port? can it be set to boot from it?
will your computer boot to the disc and if so what do you see? do you have a windows xp cd?
is this a new hdd? if original, did you format the existing partition only or clear the partition table and create a new partition?
 
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unless you already use linux you're going to have lots of questions going that route...

can you set your computer to boot that hdd and if so do you get the same ntldr error?

go to the command prompt at the root of your cd (ie: "d:\") and type:
dir /a *.* > dir.txt
And post the text from dir.txt

from that we can tell if your cd needs to "install" on your hdd or not

in case its really just a simple file missing (unlikely)
http://gwarble.com/NTLDR


EDIT to answer last question: do the same as above but on the root of the hdd, or:
dir /a E:\*.* > dir.txt
where "E:" is the hdd in question...

edit: does the megatouch have a usb port? can it be set to boot from it?
will your computer boot to the disc and if so what do you see? do you have a windows xp cd?
is this a new hdd? if original, did you format the existing partition only or clear the partition table and create a new partition?


i did a full format on the drive then copied all the cd info and files to the hdd.......after digging deeper on the cd i see the boot folder along with the games foler have no files in either......looks like they were deleted at one point...........seems i was sold corrupt or bum cd.........ill try to have my pc boot from cd and see what happens and what errors i get ..... gimmme 5 mins ill report back
 
trying to boot directly from cd in either pc or megatouch i get this ........



KMOD: FAILED TO EXEC/SBIN/MODPROBE -S-K BLOCK-MAJOR-22,ERRNO=22
DISK ERROR!
 
Ah so this machine actually runs linux, i just assumed it was a windows based solution with the NtLDR error, but in fact that error was created because your windows pc set the master boot record/bootsector to look for the windows boot loader...

Post the file list of whats on the cd... (set your computer to "show hidden files")

Do you know how to setup/use linux? I'm no expert so hopefully others can help, or ideally megatouch experts... but i'd start by googling that error message ("kmod" sounds like linux), or from a linux environment (or maybe windows) you'd have to "image" the hdd with an image file on the cd (if your cd is legit it has to either be an installer or contain raw data which is an image of the hdd, either the cd as a whole or a file on the cd) this is very generic speaking from a computer perspective, i know nothing about megatouch, sorry


Edit: Also, start googling GRUB or other linux bootloaders, and a way to install one on a specific drive
see if you can find what other megatouch users report as the default bootloader
The drive will also need to be reformatted as NTFS won't work, but you'll want to do that from linux (boot cd at least, word of caution, physically disconnect your desktops main hdd if you try this, you dont want to accidently repartition something u need)
 
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A little searching around tells me i'd try:

Verify all your versions/licences/keys match the cd, sounds like megatouch is picky
Use ImgBurn or similar to create an ISO image of the cd
Use UNetBootIn or similar to re-image the hdd as a copy of the ISO
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

and see if that works, its a long shot but would require the least knowledge of the megatouch system interworkings, and it may just be that they provided an image...



One last thing i found, in case the cd is for cdrom version of the machine, is there may be a jumper J1 on the I/O board, removed is hdd mode i read, so maybe put a jumper on there and put the cd-rom back on it and see if it will boot
 
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Ah so this machine actually runs linux, i just assumed it was a windows based solution with the NtLDR error, but in fact that error was created because your windows pc set the master boot record/bootsector to look for the windows boot loader...

Post the file list of whats on the cd... (set your computer to "show hidden files")

Hah me too. That definitely explains why It cannot find NTLDR. Though if its running Linux I doubt you pull just copy the data over since Linux uses ext2,3 or 4 and windows cannot read that file system. Did you get instructions on how to install into the new drive? I have a hard time believing its just copy files over since most people don't have a Linux machine that can read/write to the Linux file system.

Brian
 
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