Hi, I had been running win2k on a amd 1.4 ghz with 256mb of ram and it was freezing very often. I updated the bios (the mobo is k7vza from ecs) and the computer ran fine with no lock ups for a week and then crashed i got "the boot device not accessible" blue screen and since then everytime when i try to reinstall win2k i get a ntldr missing error message. I tried putting the ntldr files on a floppy and it worked (meaning i could boot the newly installed win2k). I thought that the ntldr missing was coming from a bad win2k install so i reformated and installed win2k again and now i still get the ntldr missing but even when i put the ntldr and ntdetect on floppy the computer still dont boot. Any ideas??? thanks

Did you also put boot.ini on the floppy. If you have 1 HDD it should look something like this: [boot loader] default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect This file is also in the root directory. I don't know, this probably isn't much help.