Re: Hosed HDD?
From: Dan Seur (click_at_casta.net)
Date: 04/26/04
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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 16:14:37 -0400
Check boot.ini is pointing to the right partition.
Download and run the drive manufacturer's disk diagnostic.
Andy wrote:
> Windows 98 box upgraded to W2KPro a year ago. This morning
> when starting, machine went through POST and then displyed
> that it was starting Windows 98 and looking in the MSDOS7
> directory for some config files that were renamed.
> Restarted with set-up floppies and went to the recovery
> console. Chkdsk/p said that there were unrecoverable
> errors on the volume. Ran fixboot successfully. Went to
> reboot, removing all floppies & CDs and got the :ntldr is
> missing" message. Copied boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect.com and
> bootsect.dos from an identical system to a floppy and
> copied those to the C: on the troubled machine. Rebooted
> and still got "ntldr is missing". Is the HDD toast?
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