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10-03-2005, 02:16 PM
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NTLDR missing
Ok, I popped in my xp disc in order to get into the recovery console to solve this issue, now for some reason it will not boot from my cd anymore, is this because ntldr is missing or something else? Oh, and just some extra info, this first time i tried booting from the cd it did so but now it will not
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10-03-2005, 02:19 PM
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in the bios, is your cd drive set as your bootdisk, maybe it got reset
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10-04-2005, 10:49 AM
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You sure you don't have a disk in your floppy drive?
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10-05-2005, 02:57 PM
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yea, im sure glc thanks
 Also, I downloaded bcupdate2 in order to try to reinstall ntldr that way but what is the command to copy something from the cd to the root folder in the recovery console?
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10-05-2005, 06:02 PM
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I ran into that problem before and had to do a complete reinstall....
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10-06-2005, 02:10 AM
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Hags - a fully detailed troubleshooter on your problem is in the link to the Computer Hope page that I posted on your other thread. Since that thread is now closed, I'll copy it here to make things easier http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm . It includes the Recovery Console commands for copying files over.
You may want to run diagnostics on what hardware you can. If this is a home build, diagnostics for the hard drive should be on a CD that came with the drive (or you can download them from the manufacturer's website). For the memory, memtest86 gets recommended a lot ( http://www.memtest.org ) I like to run the diagnostics just so that time isn't lost looking for software solutions to a hardware problem. I'm still not convinced your Bios setup is OK. If you happen to have a virus in there, that could be wreaking havoc, too. Have you run any scans with an antivirus bootable CD? Have you tried scanning the drive in another computer? If this is a recent build, and you have backups, & if the hardware tests out OK, you might just want to start over - zero write your hard drive, flash the bios & start from scratch [clean install, setting up the hard drive with the Windows XP CD]. Scan the heck out of your backed up data before you restore it. Best of luck . . . Gary [P.S. -- and if you have an extra optical drive around, check things booting from it -- optical drives can be sensitive devices, and fail suddenly] Last edited by GaryRouth; 10-06-2005 at 02:13 AM. |
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10-06-2005, 05:47 AM
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copy d:\i386\filename.ext c:\ |
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