Re: NTLDR is missing

Just a thought. has he got a windows 98 or ME startup disk? If not download
one from www.bootdisk.com It doesn't matter if he has a FAT32 or NTFS file
system for this excercise (Win 98 ME startup disks will not work with NTFS -
but we are not out to use the disk for anything spectacular)
Insert the floppy into the floppy drive and reboot the machine. Now if the
file system is FAT32 the floppy will boot to the 'A' prompt. In this
instance, at the 'A' prompt type: fdisk and then press Enter. This will
allow you to remove the partition from disk0 and then recreate a new one (or
more than one if you need to)
If the file system is NTFS you will simply get the option to use fdisk.

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


<me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 18:38:42 +0100, "John Barnett MVP"
> <freelanceit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>
> Thank. It 's a shame that he has this problem when he's taken so many
> precautions. HD1 is safely out of the machine now where it can come to
> no harm. All backups are on it.
>
> The problem is that he can't boot up to a floppy. I've sent him
> details of downloading the right bootup floppy from MS, but so far
> nothing that he already had would boot up. Ghost bootup 2001 (Iknow
> it doesn't work with XP) just hung, as did maxblast3, and all other
> floppies that were supposed to boot up.
>
> If only he could wipe everything on HD0 he'd be alright.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Colin


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