NTLDR is missing..

[MrBaseball]

I moved my brothers hard drive from his pentium pro 180 into an old 700mhz Tbird system. I was thinking I could run the windows repair or reinstall windows to get it running correctly. Now, when I boot up the computer is says the NTLDR is missing. I checked the drive and the NTLDR is there.

So far I have run fixboot from the windows recovery consol and I also tried copying it from the i386 folder on the XP CD to the root directory of the hard drive. Im running out of ideas, does anyone know of anything else I can try? 😀

Im trying to avoid formatting the drive becasue my brother was lazy and didn't back up his mp3's like I suggested.

-Ben

 

[MrBaseball]

anybody? 😀

 

[Tiger]

You can try an FIXMBR from the recovery console although it doesn't sound like the MBR is corrupted.

 

[MrBaseball]

Originally posted by: Tiger
You can try an FIXMBR from the recovery console although it doesn't sound like the MBR is corrupted.

I tried that after running fixboot. Still not working. Im going to take a look at the boot.ini and see if that file isn't corrupt...

 

[DonaldC]

Did you try booting with the XP CD, go to Recovery Console and type:

Copy X:\i386\ntldr C:

 

[MrBaseball]

Originally posted by: DonaldC
Did you try booting with the XP CD, go to Recovery Console and type:

Copy X:\i386\ntldr C:

Yep, tried that. Thats why im confused. The ntldr is there, it's just not seeing it.

EDIT: I just noticed that I passed 100 posts 😀

 

[woodie1]

Stab in the dark-

Boot with a 98 start-up floppy and at the prompt type:

sys C:




Good luck.

 

[MrBaseball]

Originally posted by: woodie1
Stab in the dark-

Boot with a 98 start-up floppy and at the prompt type:

sys C:




Good luck.

ok, thanks. I'll give that a try.

 

[Woodie]

Just worked w/ this yesterday, but on a W2K Pro system.

Try booting off the OS CD, then choosing "Repair". Don't do the console recovery, just the repair. That should give you some choices of what parts of the OS to fix/replace. (system files, etc..)