Re: MiniCrash? - Make boot disk ?

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"Alison" <Alison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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When I rebooted my SBS2k3 standard system I got that darn
"ntldr is missing" message (IDE, not SCSI drive)

Upon inspection (spinrite) I seem to have NO errors or data loss on the
disk.
but I cannot boot it, and I tried makeboot & makembr (on a clone of the
drive) from the SBS setup disk 1 to no avail - same message - so before I
resort to reloading the OS and restoring from an slightly dated tape
:-( , I
suppose I need to make a boot floppy now and see if I can boot the hard
drive
from it. I have copied the ntldr, ntdetect & boot.ini (same partition
order
as me) from a client's system but how do I generate the boot disk with SBS
2k3 ? Can I use a workstation and make it with XP Pro ?

TIA for any help


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