Quote: Originally Posted by
wired48 
Copyin the XP cd to the HDD will not work as the files on the cd are files to be installed and not the installed files( hence the "missing NTldr" message).
Well... That won't get WinXP funtional, but it can be installed from the files that were copied to the HDD...
You'd need some other boot media, though. A boot floppy or a bootable CD, which brings us back to square one.