Re: NTLDR is missing

Visit my website http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org Click the Win XP Faq
button and take a look at question 37

if you also take a look at question 10 'creating an emergency boot disk'
this may help you boot to the desktop of one of your drives. If you can't
create an emergency boot disk (because you don't have a pc with xp on)
contact me via my website details in the Contact me section and i can email
you the relevant files. All you need is a floppy disk.


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John Barnett MVP
Associate Expert
http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org



<me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:vp9lc1prbga42j4mih20p4jvcqogddmdmf@xxxxxxxxxx
> My son has phoned me. In spite of loads of precautions he is in
> trouble again.
>
> Three months ago his Mesh desktop gave him the thumbs down when his
> Maxtor 160Gb failed. he bought another and another copy of XP Home
> because he couldn't put his hand on the first one (money to burn).
>
> HD1 has been formatted and set upo with an installation of XP in
> reserve. His usual copy is on the new Maxtor, HD0. I understand that
> all of his data is held in separate partition and that he has a backup
> of his O/S using Acronis True Image v8, and a bootable rescue CD.
>
> Hid HD0 failed and he tried to format it to restore his backup. No go.
> Now he can't get his XP on HD1 to boot. His rescue CD won't boot.
> His True Image install disk which can be a rescue disk won't boot and
> all he gets on POST is "NTLDR is missing".
>
> Can anyone offer a suggestion, apart from standing on his head and
> drinking a bottle of milk backwards?
>
> Colin


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