Re: NTLDR is missing while booting XP Pro from second HDD



Hi,

It happens because ntldr was on C:, and now it's missing. You can copy it to
whatever is now the system (active) drive from the I386 folder on the disk,
copy ntdetect.com as well. Then boot the CD and run fixboot <drive>: from
the Recovery Console.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Jatinder" <Jatinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6AAE49B5-8FD8-4F77-BDDE-E093AF4C0BE3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
> in my computer i had running two two OS C: Windows 2000 and D: Windows XP.
> And due to some bad sector in C partition my C partition was dead. So now
> when i boot my XP SP2 it takes very long to boot and was very slow.
> So i decieded to buy new hard drive and installed new hard drive as Master
> Windows Xp Pro SP2. Now my new hard drive works fine. But now when i try
> to
> boot through my old hard drive's Xp it gives me this error message saying
> "NTLDR is missing please press any key to continue" I don't know what is
> wrong, what to do.
> Pls help
> Regards


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