I need some help bad!  My computer was running slow so I decided to delete everything off of it and start over to try and make it run faster.  Well the comptuer is about 6 years old and in the beginning had Windows 98 SE as the OS and then about a YEAR ago I updated it to Windows XP Professional.  I had Norton on the computer and went to the "wipe all" section and told it to wipe the C: drive and when I restarted the comptuer it says NTLDR is missing and won't let me do anything.  Does anyone now what to do?  I would greatly apprectiate some help, thanks.

                                                        JonJon Spencer.......If I'm reading you right , you have deleted everything on your drive and will have to reinstall your operating system........However in your case you updated from Win98SE so you will have to load it first and then load the Win XP pro upgrade cd.
I would use your Win 98 boot disk and format your C drive to be sure its clean .

dl65  Well thank you!!  I appreciate the help i just have one more question how do i go about formatting the C: drive I'm not sure how to do that... One real easy way is to figure out what manufacturer your hard drive is. Then download there software to do it such as for a Maxtor drive they have a program called MaxBlast 3 that will do everything for you.

If you do not want to go that route. I Believe you make a bootable floppy. Be sure to copy format.exe onto the disk.

I believe it is:
format /s c:  or is it format c: /s  for win98. In dos you simply can type the command such as format then put a /? after it and it will describe how to use the exe. Like this:
format /?

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