RE: PLEASE HELP ME

You receive an "NTLDR is missing" error message when you start your computer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320397

An NTLDR or NTDETECT.COM Not Found Error
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555304

I am wondering if there is possible hardware failure going on here...You
mentioned noises coming from the machine? It may be viable to bring the
computer to a tech shop that can do some hardware testing, to determine
whether it be bad ram or a failing hard drive. Seems a little odd that it
wouldn't want to format with the restoration cd's. But I hope one of the
articles gives you some useful information.

Good Luck!

"DanielWalters6" wrote:

> Dear Readers I am writing to you as a last hope of saving my fairly new
> computer from physically being thrown out of the house by my mother.
>
> I have recently had a problem with my Windows XP user accounts. These
> included only accounts with Administrator priveleges beign allowed to log on.
>
> Due to a message that said "Access denied" when trying to log into the guest
> account, I figured that if I started in SAFE MODE, and went into the security
> tab of the properties menu of the Hard Drive (c:) and added indavidually each
> username into the security window and allowed full access on all accounts I
> would not have the problem.
>
> In doing so, I believe I removed some of the Users that had access to the
> hard drive. (these users were strings of numbers eg.
> 122334123423-43424234234-424234234 which had no meaning to me.)
>
> I believe that they may have something to do with the initial boot-up of my
> pc.
> No when I try turning on my computer I get the following message:
>
> =====================
> Verifying DMI Pool Data.........
> Boot from CD: Failure ...
> Boot from CD: Failure ...
>
> NTLDR is missing
> Press Ctrl+alt+Del to restart
> =====================
> I believe the Verifying DMI pool data to be standard text that is displayed
> during loadup.
> The TWO boot From CD's are pretty standard as I have always had them
> displayed, just before the operating system (windows xp) has loaded up. (Two
> messages, I can only presume because I have two CD drives).
>
> NTLDR is missing - is obviously the message that is abnormal. I can only do
> two things from here. I can press Ctrl+Alt+Del and it will repeat the
> process. And I can Print Screen (Which physically prints out what I can see)
>
> I believed that I could possibly retify the problem by loading up in SAFE
> MODE, but Safe mode is loaded up by pressing F8 at a later time to what I get
> this message.
>
> As a last resort I thourght that I could use the system recovery disk to
> completely restart from scratch (lose all personal data/files etc.) On
> inserting the disk and re-booting.
>
> When it comes to the second BOOT FROM CD. I then get the option of Pressing
> "R" to start recovery. On pressing this a bit of "whurring" comes out of my
> tower, and after about twenty seconds I get the system recovery screen load
> up.
>
> Normally when I do a system recovery I get the option on what type of
> recovery I would like to perform, eg. destructive etc. but that is now not
> an option. It just goes straight to the second option where it gives me the
> option of :
>
> =====================================
> Format and Recover:-
>
> All files, including data files, on the user patition will be lost and the
> original factory-shipped fiels will be recovered to the user partition.
>
> do you want to continue?
> =====================================
> When clicking OK (the only option availible, I can;t close box in top right
> hand corner)
> I get the following message box appear.
>
> Cannot format user partition!
> System recovery cannot continue!
>
> When clicking okay, it restarts the computer again.
>
> I would like it someone was able to tell me how to replace the obvious
> missing NT Loader files etc.
>
> Obviously I am without a extremely expensive (two and a bit yrs ago) computer.
>
> Thank you for all your time.
>
> If you have any advice pelase contact me by replying to this message, or
> e-mailing me direrctly,
>
> danielwalters6@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Thank's once again
>
>
> Daniel Walters
>
.

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