Hey all,
I just bought a VAIO AR190G off ebay. Basically the previous owner had a problem of 'ntldr missing' error which I thought was easy enough to fix - turns out it is not! Anyway, I am not sure if anyone can shed a light on this... Basically, it was initially in raid configuration so i have removed the raid feature... I boot with Win XP CD and get into the 'press enter to setup' then as soon as I press enter, it just says no HDD detected when clearly in the bios, both HDD are seen.
I also tried Win Vista - it actually installs fine until the final part where by after it tries to boot into windows, i keep getting this 'Windows boot Manager' error which says that some sort of file cant be found - mpio.sys
I am not sure why Win Vista can see the HDD and Win XP can't
They both format fine when I do a quickformat but not when I do a full format - both doesn't work. I have tried one of the HDD on my desktop and it actually installed Win XP fine but when i try to boot win XP from my AR after I install XP from my desktop, I keep getting the BSOD. I just hope it isn't some sort of hardware issue - but I have never came accross an issue where the HDD are like this - I bought a new one off a shop and collecting 2moroz so see where it takes me from there...
I'd really appreciate if someone can share some thoughts or shed a light! 
LOL, I have just given up after copying the 1st line... it looks way too complicated... I am gonna have bit of a look at nLite... do u have any ideas if i can use bartPE to reinstall XP ?
Good Luck!!
Are you going to use nLite ?
This is awesome! Thanks for telling me about nlite... it installed PERFECTLY after I used that... I really appreciate ur help Many many thanks again 
Good Luck!!
Are you going to use nLite ?
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