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Charles Blaquière
A drive was about to fail, so I used Norton Ghost to clone it onto a newer,
larger drive. Unfortunately, after installing the new drive and removing the
old one, I get the dreaded "NTLDR is missing Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to
restart" message.
I have:
- Ensured there is no floppy in the PC.
- Gone into the BIOS to ensure the drive was correctly detected and the boot
order was OK.
- Entered the Recovery Console, and did CHKDSK, FIXBOOT and FIXMBR.
- Copied NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM from the CD to C:\ and ensured the BOOT.INI
file looked good.
- Mounted the drive into another PC, ran Disk Management to ensure the drive
had an active, primary partition.
- Tried doing a Windows repair from the CD.
Nothing works! It seems as if the only thing left is to do a clean install,
which will wipe out all users and settings. (I have already backed up the
entire Documents and Settings tree, so no documents would be lost, but I
would have to recreate users and reinstall all software, something I'm
understandably unwilling to do...)
I have scoured the Net, trying to come up with any other steps apart from a
full reinstall. Is there anything you can think of? Thanks.
larger drive. Unfortunately, after installing the new drive and removing the
old one, I get the dreaded "NTLDR is missing Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to
restart" message.
I have:
- Ensured there is no floppy in the PC.
- Gone into the BIOS to ensure the drive was correctly detected and the boot
order was OK.
- Entered the Recovery Console, and did CHKDSK, FIXBOOT and FIXMBR.
- Copied NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM from the CD to C:\ and ensured the BOOT.INI
file looked good.
- Mounted the drive into another PC, ran Disk Management to ensure the drive
had an active, primary partition.
- Tried doing a Windows repair from the CD.
Nothing works! It seems as if the only thing left is to do a clean install,
which will wipe out all users and settings. (I have already backed up the
entire Documents and Settings tree, so no documents would be lost, but I
would have to recreate users and reinstall all software, something I'm
understandably unwilling to do...)
I have scoured the Net, trying to come up with any other steps apart from a
full reinstall. Is there anything you can think of? Thanks.