Pardon My Noobiness

[Cheeseplug]

Heres the story: My main rig's PSU died this weekend, and I have a netbook. I always use eeebuntu on the netbook, but have an xp installation there for backup. When my main rig died I needed the xp side of the netbook but I have the dreaded

"ntldr is missing, ctrl+alt+delete to restart"

Normally I would just boot from an XP cd and go into the recovery console, but I do not have a cd drive to work with. I need to use the windows side of the netbook for school, and it will be several days for a new power supply to arrive here.

Is there anyway to boot to the windows recovery console from USB, and what program would I use to prepare a usb drive to boot with a windows bootloarder? Or do I just suck it up and fail?

Thanks for any help, and once again, pardon my noobiness.

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: Cheeseplug
Heres the story: My main rig's PSU died this weekend, and I have a netbook. I always use eeebuntu on the netbook, but have an xp installation there for backup. When my main rig died I needed the xp side of the netbook but I have the dreaded

"ntldr is missing, ctrl+alt+delete to restart"

Normally I would just boot from an XP cd and go into the recovery console, but I do not have a cd drive to work with. I need to use the windows side of the netbook for school, and it will be several days for a new power supply to arrive here.

Is there anyway to boot to the windows recovery console from USB, and what program would I use to prepare a usb drive to boot with a windows bootloarder? Or do I just suck it up and fail?

Thanks for any help, and once again, pardon my noobiness.

I ran into a similar problem, on this Asus 1000HD netbook...

When I first started messing around with Solaris, I didn't realize that Linux and Solaris versions of GRUB were incompatible, sooo all I could boot into was Solaris... not Mint 7 or XP.

Normally, this wouldn't be a problem. I could repair the problem using a bootable CD, but this thing doesn't have an optical drive. I tried to make a bootable USB drive of Ultimate Boot CD, but that damn thing is built on PC-DOS (or whatever) and uses it's own specialized version of GRUB too - so that was a wash!

Anyway,to make a long story short...

On a lark, I decided to visit my local Goodwill store, to see if they had any USB CDROM drives, and sure as shit, they had three different ones sitting on the shelf. Bwahahaha!

I picked up a Que! USB 2 24x12x40 CDRW drive (in mint condition) for $12.99. It had the factory PS taped to it, but the USB-USB cable was missing. I looked around and found a Belkin USB cable with gold-plated connectors for $1.99.

You can probably make a USB XP boot drive, but one man's junk is another man's treasure, you know? 😀

I'd suggest buying yourself an external USB CD/DVD. That's what I did...