Re: Win XP:Locating recovery console and typing commands therein
- From: "Rick \"Nutcase\" Rogers" <rick@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 07:24:14 -0400
Hi,
Sounds like you are trying to work from a DOS boot floppy, which is pretty
well useless if the system is using the NTFS file system. DOS cannot read
that file system, so that is why you get the invalid path messages.
What you need to do is load the XP Recovery Console from either the CD or
the Boot Floppy set. If you have retail or generic OEM disk, this is done by
booting the system with the CD in place (and having the BIOS set to boot the
CD drive first), then hitting 'r' at the first prompt. You will then need to
logon with the administrator password. If you do not have one of these, then
you can use the 6 disk boot floppy set, see this on creating them:
http://rickrogers.org/fixes.htm#Boot%20floppy
Once booted, you can simply copy ntldr from the I386 folder to the root of
the system drive (this being the drive the system actually boots from,
usually the same as the one housing the system installation).
--
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"Baz63" <Baz63.1so7sm@> wrote in message
news:SsednfGwRIs96H7fRVn_vQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> ::I am unable to boot onto my PC. I get a message ?ntldr is missing?. I
> have found a temporary work around and boot using a floppy disk. I have
> installed the recovery console from my installation disk. But I cannot
> find it. In addition, I have have to copy nldr files from the
> installation disk onto my c drive. Whenever I type the relevant
> commands onto recovery console I get the following types of messages: ?
> path or file specified is not valid? which indicates I am not
> typing/using recovery console.I need help woth to problems:::
>
> :: ::
>
> ::1):: ::How do I find and access recovery console? I tried F8
> but cannot find it there. I thought it would have been installed on my
> start menu.::
>
> ::2):: ::How do I type the requisite commands onto recovery
> console.::
>
> :: ::
>
> ::My problem:::
>
> '_::http://www.tinyempire.com/shortnotes/files/ntldr_missing.htm::_'
> (http://www.tinyempire.com/shortnotes/files/ntldr_missing.htm)
>
> :: ::
>
> ::The solution:::
>
> '_::http://www.tinyempire.com/shortnotes/files/ntldr_missing.htm::_'
> (http://www.tinyempire.com/shortnotes/files/ntldr_missing.htm)
>
> :: ::
>
> ::*Windows XP users*::
> ::6.:: ::Copy the below two files to the ::'_::root::_'
> (http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/r/root.htm):: directory of the
> primary hard disk. In the below example we are copying these files from
> the CD-ROM drive letter \"E\". This letter may be different on your
> computer.
>
> copy e:\i386\ntldr c:\
> copy e:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\::
>
> ::7.:: ::Once both of these files have been successfully copied,
> remove the CD from the computer and reboot. ::
> ::::
> ::The above solution presumes I know how to copy the above files. I
> typed in the above commands but got the above error message mmentioned
> above. The articles give the impression it's simply a matter of typing
> in the commands, but I think more must be done on recovery console
> before this can be done. I need a step by step tutorial on how to do
> this. I have spent hours googling and cannot find anything which
> teaches a novice how to do it . The microsoft website is useless
> because again it presumes you know how to work recovery console.::
> :: ::
>
> ::I found this which appeared to be helpful:::
>
> '_::http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm::_'
> (http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm)
>
> :: ::
>
> _Recovering_from_Bootup_problems_:_
> When the system displays on booting a message of "missing" NTLDR or
> NTDETECT,
> you can copy these files via Recovery Console from the CD-ROM :
>
> make sure to be on the root of the C:-drive (please make : CD \ ).
> In my example, the CD-ROM drive is Drive D: , allowing to make a copy
> of the files
> NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM from the i386-directory to the C:\ - root
> directory.
>
>
>
>
>
> But again it fails to tell you how to do this eg how do I tell recovery
> console how to copy the files on the root file.What does please make cd
> \. mean?
>
> Apologies for the lengthy post. Hoping I have provided all the
> necessary info.
>
> Thanx for your help in advance.
>
> :: ::
>
>
> --
> Baz63Posted from http://www.pcreview.co.uk/ newsgroup access
>
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