NTLDR is missing after moving hard drive to new computer

Greetings. I've googled many times for solutions to the NTLDR problem (and others that came after it), but now I've got a new spin on it. Here's the skinny:
I have a computer with two NTFS drives, Windows 2000 installed on the 15 GB, no OS on the 30 GB. This computer is massively outdated (the video card was pre-1997!), so I bought a whole new system that came with a 40 GB drive, FAT32, Windows 98 installed. I moved the two hard drives from the old computer to the new one, with the Windows 2000 drive as primary master, the Windows 98 drive as primary slave, the DVD/CD-RW drive the new computer came with as secondary master (default) and the other NTFS drive as secondary slave.
Upon first boot, I received the wonderful "NTLDR is missing : Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot" message. Now I've dealt with NTLDR messages before, so I ran the Recovery Console, attempted to repair the installation. No good. I tried copying NTLDR from a working 2000 system. No good. The interesting thing about that is that the next time I ran the Console, it told me that all sorts of files were not original and would I like it to fix them. Of course I said yes, but the problem is right back at square one.
I unplugged everything and set the new system back to the Win98 configuration and it boots just fine. I put the NTFS drives back into my old system and it boots. Sort of. I get the Windows 2000 load screen, the status bar begins to fill, hangs halfway, then continues, and just as the status bar reaches full, the entire system reboots on its own.
So I'm stumped. I hope someone out there can help me, because I'd really rather not go through the annoyances of installing 2000 again, not after all the **** I went through a few months ago to save my data off a burned out hard drive.
Cheerio,
TC

 

You Swapped the MB for your HD

You have essentially replaced the motherboard for your existing HD. Look here and do solution #3:
(In-Place Upgrade to force hardware re-detection)

http://www.windowsreinstall.com/install/other/motherboard/win2k.htm

Good Luck
Top Dog

 

Now how come I never found that while Googling?
That seemed to work. It booted properly and the "Windows 2000 Professional Upgrade" box appeared and it ran through a whole bunch of stuff that appeared to be standard installation. Then when Setup finished, it wanted to reboot, so I did. Now it looks as though I started in Safe Mode (bad graphics, etc.) so I guess this means I need to install the drivers for the video and audio that are built into the MB. I'll get to that now.
Thanks so much for your help!
T.C.

 

Dont run recovery consol it dosnt work.

in blue screen :
press Enter for fresh setup
and F8 to agree
after that you have too choice
to repair your system press R .
press R and wait the files copies to your system, dont worry nothing missing and only you have to type Product Key again

if i understand your problem, your problem solved

Regards