hi everyone

my friend had windows xp professional installed on his comp, and just today he switched it on and it is no longer booting up. the startup command says that:

NTLDR file is misssing!

does anyone know what i can do to resolve this problem without having to format the drive cuz he has lots of work on it.

i assumed it was something to do with the boot record being corrupt.

can anyone help??

cheers

Ishy.

Ishy,

Assuming they haven't left a floppy in the drive do the following.

1) Boot to the "Recovery Console" from the CD.
2) Copy some files from the CD to the hard disk
copy D:\i386\NTLDR C:
copy D:\i386\NTDETECT.COM C:
Change D in the above lines to whatever the drive letter the CD drive is.

That should solve there problem.

Solid answer there, wierrd_fish!
...and welcome to BetaONE. :)

That would save me formatting if that ever happened! Cheers for that!

Learn something new every day.

thanks for your help guys

tried all of that but then found out that his whole hard disk was corrupt. had to do a whole re-format.

its all working good now though, and its better because its a clean install, as opposed to an upgrade, which is what he did last time.

regards

Ishy.

Hmmm, learned something new too. I would have just did a repair install.