Re: LBA instead of LARGE - ntldr missing?

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<louloizides@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1137765015.339380.62900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> When I originally installed my lard drive, I had the mode in the bios
> set to Large instead of LBA by mistake. Now I want to set it to LBA,
> but when I do this I always get an error upon booting that says "NTLDR
> is missing". This seems to only be a problem with the bootsector
> because when I boot off of a disk I can read everything on the drive
> just fine (I kept it FAT32). Is there a way to convert the bootsector
> so that ntldr works ok?
>

If you formatted your disk under the Large geometry settings
then you must leave it at this setting. If you changed it and
managed somehow to write to the disk then you would
most likely corrupt the file system. The file ntldr is only the
tip of the iceberg!


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