OK, I have the laptop back. I have reformatted the drive and partitioned etc. Copied across the I386 folder, this time from an XP pro disc rather than the XP home one I was using before. Same error with the NTLDR.

I copied across the NTLDR file from Logomind, no change. I read the page on boot.ini and whilst I understood most of it, I wasn't quite sure what to do with it, having said that, my new HDD doesn't have a BOOT.INI!

Any more suggestions?