NTDLR

[Guest]

hi

i was playing a video game and my computer crashed. i
tried cntrl-alt-delete to restart, but that didnt work,
so i hit the reset button.

before the computer could finish booting, it told me i
had an NTDLR error and i had to hit cntrl-alt-delete to
restart. it never gets past this error, i assume "NTDLR"
is something that the boot sector uses to communicate to
the operating system or something.

also, i dont have any disks in the drives or anything.
believe me that was the first thing ive checked.

im currently running windows xp pro sp1, and i have a
windows xp home disk laying around. i tried doing the
repair install, but it puts me in console mode or
something and im not really sure what to do next.

does anyone have any advice?

 

[Harry Ohrn]

To replace damaged ntldr and ntdetect.com you can copy fresh files from the
XP CD using the COPY command. Boot with the XP CD and enter the Recovery
Console. At the Command Prompt type the following (where "X" is your CD-Rom
drive letter) allowing the files to overwrite the old files
COPY X:\i386\NTLDR C:
COPY X:\i386\NTDETECT.COM C: