Cracker crash= Got it going!! Thanks to the posters

[Bleep]

My best cracker which has win 2000 on it went down during a power outage and now will not boot the NTLDR is missing how can I replace the boot loader without formating?

Bleep

 

[Freewolf]

Don't know anything about 2k but can you do a repair using the install disk ?

 

[Unforgiven]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;318728&Product=win2000

 

[RaySun2Be]

Originally posted by: Unforgiven
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;318728&Product=win2000

I had a user PC with that very same issue, and it had a lot of important data. I tried to do the recovery steps, but to no avail.

I ended up hooking the HD up to another Win2K box, copying all data I needed to save, then re-installing the HD and doing a fresh install of Win2K and all the apps that was on it. 6 hours later, it was back up and running.

Bleep, I hope you have better luck than I did! 🙂

 

[Bleep]

Unforgiven: well I was looking at that and nothing seemed to work it would not boot from my emergency disk which I just figured out is corrupt. I made a new one from another machine and when it booted from the A drive it said invalid system disk-remove disk and press any key. I did this and the darn thing booted , pretty strange but seems to be OK not, I may have got a little ahead of myself posting but thanks for the advice.

Bleep

 

[Unforgiven]

i actually robbed that link from the OS forum 🙂 ive never been able to get my system to recover after a NTLDR error 🙁 ive always ended up reformatting but i thought i would give you the official microsoft bs link to see if maybe it would work for you. good luck, and if you get it fixed with anyones help from here, please post what it was that you did because i am very curious....