A
Andy
Windows 98 box upgraded to W2KPro a year ago. This morning
when starting, machine went through POST and then displyed
that it was starting Windows 98 and looking in the MSDOS7
directory for some config files that were renamed.
Restarted with set-up floppies and went to the recovery
console. Chkdsk/p said that there were unrecoverable
errors on the volume. Ran fixboot successfully. Went to
reboot, removing all floppies & CDs and got the :ntldr is
missing" message. Copied boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect.com and
bootsect.dos from an identical system to a floppy and
copied those to the C: on the troubled machine. Rebooted
and still got "ntldr is missing". Is the HDD toast?
when starting, machine went through POST and then displyed
that it was starting Windows 98 and looking in the MSDOS7
directory for some config files that were renamed.
Restarted with set-up floppies and went to the recovery
console. Chkdsk/p said that there were unrecoverable
errors on the volume. Ran fixboot successfully. Went to
reboot, removing all floppies & CDs and got the :ntldr is
missing" message. Copied boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect.com and
bootsect.dos from an identical system to a floppy and
copied those to the C: on the troubled machine. Rebooted
and still got "ntldr is missing". Is the HDD toast?