Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="sanjeeme" data-source="post: 3815514" data-attributes="member: 86590">NTLDR is missing?NTLDR is missing? From a newsgroup post by late Mr.Alex Nichol, Microsoft MVP:The MBR code hands the boot on to the Active partition; the boot code inthat loads NTLDR.  There are two cases:"NTLDR not found" at all may arise because the incorrect partition has beenset as active. This can happen if you have a dual boot and have messed withthe files in that partition that boot; this is not the XP one, or haveshifted the boot to the XP partition which does not have NTLDR in it."NTLDR damaged" means what it says, the file is there but not working.Either way, if you have a proper retail type XP CD, not some maker'srecovery disk:Set the BIOS to boot CD before Hard Disk.  Boot the XP CD and, instead ofSetup, take the immediate R for Repair.  Assume any password requested isblank, and TAB over. Assuming this sees the CD as D (likely) give:COPY D:\i386\ntldr C:\COPY D:\i386\ntdetect  C:\(a file that may also be missing)then rebuild the boot configuration boot.ini file byAttrib  -H -R -S C:\boot.ini(if not found skip the next line)DEL  C:\boot.iniBootCfg  /Rebuild</blockquote>

Top Bottom