Re: Error message - NTLDR is missing

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"DennyF" <DennyF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have discovered how to recover from this error message, but what is
deleting this from my Windows? I have to do a recovery from the restore
disk
every time I re-boot now. Is there a way to stop the erasure or deletion?
I
am at a loss, at least I am not losing everything like I did before
discovering the fix.

I had the same problem awhile back. It turned out the so-called "recovery"
was sticking the boot files into windows\system32 (strange but true). So
here's what I did:

After a normal boot, I located and copied the NTLDR, boot.ini, and
ntdetect.com to the root of my boot drive AND made a backup on another
drive. I then deleted the above files from the \system32 directory (the
backup was in case things went bumwacky again) and rebooted. Problem
solved.


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