Re: Missing ntldr

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"widman" <widman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Trying to follow the article on booting from a CD and copying the two
recommended files (ntldr and ntdetect) from the CD I was limited by the
fact
that my Windows CD is a Toshiba reinstall only. It want's to format and
reinstall everything, which is sometimes fine, but not what I want to do
if
not necessary.

I took the drive out and put it in a USB case connected to another Toshiba
running the same version of windows and tried copying the two files from
the
working Toshiba to the second drive, but it still does not boot. Still
says
it can't find the ntldr file.

The only difference in the files in the root directory is the non-booting
one does not have a pagefile.

What is the next step?

- What is the recent history of this machine?
- Is the system partition marked "active"?


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