John said:
MY brother has given me his computer to fix.......he has the following come
up when he powers on his computer...........Loading PBR for descriptor
2...done.
NTLDR is missing
Press
Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
Have dont that and it doesnt work, so i inserted the Windows XP CD-ROM to do
a Repair, but it asks for an Administrator Password and my brother says he
cant remember it.......how do i get round this?
Any help would be great!!!
Did you tried the password Blank?.
you can use a password reset utility
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
Then Boot up with your CD in the CD Rom and when you presented with Windows
Setup
Options:
1- Install Windows
2- Repair existing copy
3- Quit
Select 2 by Pressing R on your keyboard, on the Command Prompt type:
C:\Windows>CD.. Hit [Enter..] on your Keyboard
on the new Prompt type this:
C:\>
copy X:\i386\ntldr c:\ where X is the Drive Letter for your CD-Rom
copy X:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\ " " "
Please type one at a time click/Hit [Enter..]
You may need to rebuild your Boot.ini type this on the Prompt:
C:\>Boot.ini click Enter and you will see your Boot.ini you can Edit it or
if was intact leave as is, the boot.ini will look like this, be aware this
for XP Home so if you have XP pro:
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect
You will get Boot Indentifier: Enter this " Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition"
Boot Loader: Enter this" /fastdetect"
When you finished type: reboot (I'm not sure if it is right you can Type ?
to get the list of commands and see if reboot is one) or Exit.
HTH.
nass
