Deleted contents of C: on dual boot system

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Hi

We have a dual boot system that defaults to the F: drive and we were
running out of space

so ........ deleted the contents of C: as we never boot to this drive.
DOH DOH DOH!!!!!

Now we're getting the "ntldr is missing" ..... (Lucky XP doesn't add
"OBVIOUSLY you IDIOT!")

The way forward .... (please don't flame me too much)
Should I try and reinstall XP on the C: drive or just create a boot
disk and copy to c:

If the latter, what settings should I use in the Boot.ini file?

Thanks
West
 
From a Alex Nichol post:

The C partition *also* held the files needed to do the initial boot of
XP. You will have to reinstate them. Set the BIOS to boot CD before
Hard Disk. Boot the XP CD and, instead of Setup, take the immediate R
for Repair. Assume any password requested is blank, and TAB over.

Use its COPY command to
Copy x:\i386\ntldr C:\ntldr
and
Copy x:\ntdetect.com c:\ntdetect.com
where x: is the CD drive letter, then
BootCfg /Rebuild
 
Hi,

Boot the WinXP CD, copy ntldr and ntdetect.com to F: from the I386 folder on
the CD, then run fixboot F: from the prompt.

HOW TO: Install and Use the Recovery Console in Windows XP [Q307654]
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307654

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
If you just deleted files and have not formatted drive, you should be able to
copy files from running XP machine or download a bootdisk and copy files from
it to "C" drive.

You will need:
boot.ini
ntldr
ntdetect.com

XP Quick Boot diskette files
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

This boot ini will have to edited.

or you create new boot.ini by using command bootcfg/rebuild from command
prompt using Recovery console.
 
Hi

We have a dual boot system that defaults to the F: drive and we were
running out of space

so ........ deleted the contents of C: as we never boot to this drive.
DOH DOH DOH!!!!!

Now we're getting the "ntldr is missing" ..... (Lucky XP doesn't add
"OBVIOUSLY you IDIOT!")

The way forward .... (please don't flame me too much)
Should I try and reinstall XP on the C: drive or just create a boot
disk and copy to c:

If the latter, what settings should I use in the Boot.ini file?

Thanks
West
Click to expand...

Was that this article?
Windows Installer CleanUp Utility
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

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Hi

We have a dual boot system that defaults to the F: drive and we were
running out of space

so ........ deleted the contents of C: as we never boot to this drive.
DOH DOH DOH!!!!!

Now we're getting the "ntldr is missing" ..... (Lucky XP doesn't add
"OBVIOUSLY you IDIOT!")

The way forward .... (please don't flame me too much)
Should I try and reinstall XP on the C: drive or just create a boot
disk and copy to c:

If the latter, what settings should I use in the Boot.ini file?

Thanks
West
Click to expand...

Oops!
Attached reply to wrong post.

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Sounds like you kicked your kids out of the backseat because the trunk was
getting full.

Rather interesting that XP let's one delete critical files from the system
partition, at least without a some notification what's going on.
 
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