Re: missing ntldr

From: John Barnett MVP (freelanceit_at_mvps.org.nospam)
Date: 08/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:13:25 +0100

Glad it worked Aaron. At least i've made one person happy today:-)
Your second (corrupt) hard drive will be set as slave. You can do this
either by setting the jumpers on the back of the drive to slave or, if it
supports it, 'cable select' With cable select the system selects the drive
according to the connection on the data ribbon, i.e., first data connection
is primary, the second connection - half way down the cable - is slave. Your
'new' drive is already set as the C: drive so windows xp should
automatically boot from that drive so you can then scan your 'slave' drive
for any viruses. However, if the drive is corrupt you may not be able to
scan it at all. You might try chkdsk first to see if the drive has any bad
sectors.

Good Luck! 

-- 
John Barnett MVP
Associate Expert
www.freelanceit.glowinternet.net
"Aaron" <Aaron@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:203DBB82-0518-4A41-A5FE-11D91F05AFFF@microsoft.com...
> IT WORKED!
>
> I booted with those 6 floppies, it immediately found the CD, and we were 
> off
> and running!  XP Pro loaded, Sec Patch #1 downloaded, the rest of the 
> updates
> installed.
>
> Next comes loading McAfee and getting up-to-date virus defs.  Then I'm
> planning on hooking up the "original / corrupted" HD and will scan it. 
> Any
> suggestions on how not to mess this up?   Shouldn't be that bad - as long 
> as
> the drive is not accessed by the OS before I virus-scan it - I hope!
>
> THANKS AGAIN!
>
> "John Barnett MVP" wrote:
>
>> Aaron, you say in your post that 'When I boot up, the CD is read, but I
>> never get to the setup screen,
>> therefore can't get to Recovery screen.  Just get that "NTLDR is missing"
>> statement' At this stage has windows xp setup gone through the initial
>> copying of files to memory? If this is the case then ntldr is not being
>> copied from the cd to memory. One way round this problem, but it requires
>> work on your part, is to visit www.bootdisk.com and look for the windows 
>> xp
>> boot disks. Now there should be around 6 floppy disks in all to download.
>> Once you have copied the details to the relevant floppies insert the
>> floppies into your floppy drive and reboot your machine. What happens 
>> here
>> is that the floppies contain all the files that the cd initially copies 
>> to
>> memory. If you also insert your cd into your cd rom and press the 'shift'
>> button so that setup doesn't start, as soon as the floppies have copied 
>> the
>> relevant information to the memory the cd can carry on from where the
>> floppies left off.
>> As to the floppy disk you have been using to get to the 'A' prompt the 
>> first
>> thing is, does it give you the option to install cd drivers - there 
>> should
>> be an option to boot with cd support. If not then that ias the reason for
>> you receiving an 'invalid drive' error. Alternatively 'E' may not be your 
>> cd
>> rom drive letter (Dos calculates the drive letters differently to 
>> windows)
>> so try 'D' instead.
>>
>> -- 
>> John Barnett MVP
>> Associate Expert
>> www.freelanceit.glowinternet.net
>>
>>
>> "Aaron" <Aaron@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:D16B4C4E-A920-47A8-AFBD-6FBA20D81409@microsoft.com...
>> > Similar problem here... looked at Ques 37 - didn't quite fit my
>> > problem....
>> >
>> > Have 1.5 yr old HP (40 GB HD) with XP Home pre-installed.  Corrupt HD
>> > (extremely slow boot, cant run virus scan, one hour to start the
>> > Add/Remove
>> > program...) after installing Framework.net.  Able to remove 
>> > Framework.net
>> > ,
>> > but problem persists.
>> >
>> > Bought new 80 GB Seagate HD, installed as master, unplugged old 40GB
>> > (corrupted).  Partitioned with Seagate software.  Have new licensed 
>> > copy
>> > of
>> > XP Pro I want to install on 80 GB (then install McAfee to "clean" any 
>> > bug
>> > there is on 40GB).
>> >
>> > When I boot up, the CD is read, but I never get to the setup screen,
>> > therefore can't get to Recovery screen.  Just get that "NTLDR is 
>> > missing"
>> > statement.
>> >
>> > I have an XP boot up 3.5" disk that does get me to an A: prompt, but 
>> > when
>> > I
>> > try to switch to the CD drive (e:) it says that it is an "invalid drive
>> > specification."
>> >
>> > Any ideas?   Thanks!
>> >
>> > "John Barnett MVP" wrote:
>> >
>> >> That will be whatever your windows xp is called in the boot ini file. 
>> >> Try
>> >> Windows XP. You don't say what version of xp you are using so you 
>> >> might
>> >> have
>> >> to try Windows XP Home as an identifier or Windows XP Professional
>> >>
>> >> -- 
>> >> John Barnett MVP
>> >> Associate Expert
>> >> www.freelanceit.glowinternet.net
>> >> "Rick" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:071e01c48213$55a1c0b0$3501280a@phx.gbl...
>> >> > John,
>> >> >
>> >> > I followed your instructions and all went well accept the
>> >> > system asks me for a load identifier?
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >>-----Original Message-----
>> >> >>visit my website www.freelanceit.glowinternet.net Click
>> >> > the WinXP Faq button
>> >> >>and take a look at question 37
>> >> >>
>> >> >>-- 
>> >> >>John Barnett MVP
>> >> >>Associate Expert
>> >> >>www.freelanceit.glowinternet.net
>> >> >>"RP" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> >> > message
>> >> >>news:60b701c48209$8ec97360$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> >> >>> anyone run into this error
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>.
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