Re: NTLDR and Qosmio f30-140

Hello fellows
My Toshiba is Qosmio f30-140 ,it came with xp windows, but I installed on it windows 7 and it was working very well for almost 2 years until i got problem with the display card started as little green dots till blank screen and these were over one year so I wanted to instal new windows 7.
So i remove my main HDD and connected it to other PC and format the C partition ,and copied windows source in the C partition and made the HDD in bois as primary boot and restart BUT i got NTLDR is missing press ctrl+alt+del to restart
*Notes*
1 - I have problem in the display card since i installed windows 7. i got the yellow triangle on it at device manager window.
2 - my screen doesn't work, it just appear the qosmio screen for one second and disappear when i start it. So i am using external LCD screen.
3 - I installed extra HDD (it has the space for extra HDD).
*I got Questions for you :*
1- How can i enable the laptop to boot from usb flash memory with windows 7 source
2- How can i instal windows 7 NOOWW ????
Thanks and appreciate any helps
Canadian shark

NTLDR error means the Windows boot system is corrupted or there are missing files.
Try holding down the Zero (0) key during power up to initiate the Recovery Partition. If it works, you can install Windows via the original factory Windows (XP/Vista).
You can install Windows from a USB Flash Drive (I guess you need at least 8GB or 16GB), but you need to make it bootable first, then prepare Windows files.
Press F12 during power up to view the boot menu, then select USB.
If it won't boot, then the USB drive was not prepared properly, or USB emulation needs to be set to "HDD" in the BIOS.

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