Please help ntldr is missing

About a month ago, my laptop (with vista as OS) started acting up,
giving me error messages such as “windows\system32\boot\winload.exe
missing or corrupt” as well as “windows\system32\stsem missing”. I tried
everything I could in vain, and I decided to go ahead and format my hard
drive, through another computer using an enclosure kit since I couldn’t
even get into safe mode or any other mode without getting the error
screen right away. I seemed that the problem was getting worst as I
restarted my computer.
As I mentioned above, I formatted my disc, thus lost all data, hoping
to be able to install a clean version of VISTA. I reinstall my hard
drive in the laptop, and just to make a quick test, I started the
computer without the VISTA DVD in and I got the error “NTLDR is missing
Press CTRL+Alt+Del to restart”, and wondering what that was about, I
looked it up on the internet, and most people seemed to say that error
message was a typical windows XP type of error. But I never had XP on
this computer. So I didn’t do anything about and put the VISTA DVD in
the drive and restarted the computer. I got the message “press any key
to boot from CD or DVD…” When I didn’t push any button, I got the error
message “NTLDR is missing Press CTRL+Alt+Del to restart”, and then I
restarted it and pushed a key to boot it from the VISTA DVD. I then got
the “windows is loading files” screen. Once it was done loading files,
it went straight to the error screen “Windows failed to start. A recent
hardware or software change might be the cause
…windows\system32\boot\winload.exe missing or corrupt … status
0x0000001…”.
At this point I really don’t know what to do, and I’m totally confused,
since my hard drive is totally empty and I still get those error
messages.

I got a tip from somebody telling me the reason i get that message is
the fact i formatted the disc using and XP machine,implying that XP
leaves codes specific to XP in the drive,thus the error message. But i
don't have access to any other Vista machine, Does anybody know to get
a clean format from XP?

Please help


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It sounds like you probably have a bad hard drive or other hardware
problem. The original symptoms may well have been due to a failing drive.
This should have been checked before trying to reformat and reinstall Vista.
When you formatted the drive did you run a full format or a quick format?
Were any bad sectors reported?
It would be advisable to check the drive either by downloading the drive
manufacturers utility to make a bootable media or connecting it to another
computer. It wouldn't hurt to also run a RAM test.
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> About a month ago, my laptop (with vista as OS) started acting up,
> giving me error messages such as "windowssystem32bootwinload.exe
> missing or corrupt" as well as "windowssystem32stsem missing". I tried
> everything I could in vain, and I decided to go ahead and format my hard
> drive, through another computer using an enclosure kit since I couldn't
> even get into safe mode or any other mode without getting the error
> screen right away. I seemed that the problem was getting worst as I
> restarted my computer.
> As I mentioned above, I formatted my disc, thus lost all data, hoping
> to be able to install a clean version of VISTA. I reinstall my hard
> drive in the laptop, and just to make a quick test, I started the
> computer without the VISTA DVD in and I got the error "NTLDR is missing
> Press CTRL+Alt+Del to restart", and wondering what that was about, I
> looked it up on the internet, and most people seemed to say that error
> message was a typical windows XP type of error. But I never had XP on
> this computer. So I didn't do anything about and put the VISTA DVD in
> the drive and restarted the computer. I got the message "press any key
> to boot from CD or DVD." When I didn't push any button, I got the error
> message "NTLDR is missing Press CTRL+Alt+Del to restart", and then I
> restarted it and pushed a key to boot it from the VISTA DVD. I then got
> the "windows is loading files" screen. Once it was done loading files,
> it went straight to the error screen "Windows failed to start. A recent
> hardware or software change might be the cause
> .windowssystem32bootwinload.exe missing or corrupt . status
> 0x0000001.".
> At this point I really don't know what to do, and I'm totally confused,
> since my hard drive is totally empty and I still get those error
> messages.
>
> I got a tip from somebody telling me the reason i get that message is
> the fact i formatted the disc using and XP machine,implying that XP
> leaves codes specific to XP in the drive,thus the error message. But i
> don't have access to any other Vista machine, Does anybody know to get
> a clean format from XP?
>
> Please help
>
>
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