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Tim.T
I shutdown the previous night and there were no signs of a problem; I booted
up this morning and it gave the message "NTLDR is missing, press
ctrl+alt+del to restart". Just like that! Aint XP swell!!
I have 5 partitions, and Windows is installed in it's own, C:. Prior to this
cockup, all partitions were NTFS, but this time I decided to format C: in
FAT32 (is this a better option?) For some reason C: always seems to have
issues around the MBR or something, especially while it was NTFS, and yet
the other NTFS partitions have never caused any problems.
This is a brand new pc and I have not upgraded from windows 95, 98 or 2000.
Nor have I used third-party software to clone an old
hard drive, as described in this Microsoft article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;314057
I have copied both the boot.ini, ntdetect.com, and ntldr files to a floppy,
but I've read that other people have
tried this with no effect.
Now I'm more or less back to normal, but I'd like to know:
a)what exactly can cause this error
b)what should I do in preparation in case it happens again
c)how can I stop it happening again
I'm beginning to have a love/hate relationship with XP! I've barely gone a
month without some catastrophic
failure occuring somewhere on this damn thing.
Tim
up this morning and it gave the message "NTLDR is missing, press
ctrl+alt+del to restart". Just like that! Aint XP swell!!
I have 5 partitions, and Windows is installed in it's own, C:. Prior to this
cockup, all partitions were NTFS, but this time I decided to format C: in
FAT32 (is this a better option?) For some reason C: always seems to have
issues around the MBR or something, especially while it was NTFS, and yet
the other NTFS partitions have never caused any problems.
This is a brand new pc and I have not upgraded from windows 95, 98 or 2000.
Nor have I used third-party software to clone an old
hard drive, as described in this Microsoft article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;314057
I have copied both the boot.ini, ntdetect.com, and ntldr files to a floppy,
but I've read that other people have
tried this with no effect.
Now I'm more or less back to normal, but I'd like to know:
a)what exactly can cause this error
b)what should I do in preparation in case it happens again
c)how can I stop it happening again
I'm beginning to have a love/hate relationship with XP! I've barely gone a
month without some catastrophic
failure occuring somewhere on this damn thing.
Tim