Re: NTLDR is missing

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 21:07:26 -0500, Sharon F <sharonfDEL@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:40:28 GMT, me@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> His True Image install disk which can be a rescue disk won't boot and
>> all he gets on POST is "NTLDR is missing".
>
>He shouldn't see this Windows boot message error using that boot disk. It
>sounds like he missed pressing the key to boot from CD and Windows went
>ahead and tried to load.


When I'm there on Sunday I shall watch for this.
We now know what this message means. XP doesn't like the geometry and
thinks it's being run in a different machine. This is understandable
because somehow when in the early stages of this emergency he
re-installed and his C: drive became G: drive. From then it was not
"mountable". We still don't know why no drives at all are booting.

Many thanks.

Colin

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