Bcupdate2

[Ann]

Having problems with ntldr is missing & failure to boot on
Dell Windows XP Home PC. KB article says to contact MS for
a utility file named Bcupdate2.

I do NOT wish to bog down my system with creating a
passport identity. Does anyone know of another way to
acquire that utility?

Thank you.

 

[peter]

Try booting up using the XP CD-ROM and choose to repair. Then choose the
Recovery Console Option...
Choose the number corresponding to your XP version and enter your
Administrator Password (then press enter).

After that you'll see a command prompt...enter the following command:

bootcfg /rebuild" command to fix boot.ini.
FIXBOOT will fix the boot sector on the boot drive,
FIXMBR will fix the master boot record if the NT loader
complains of a missing HAL or unmountable boot volume.



After the process is completed enter the command EXIT to quit (and the
system should auto reboot OK from that point onwards...
peter