Carlos1981 said:
A Fault in NTLDR meansd your MBR (Master boot recoerd is screwed) so you will
need to find a solution that fixes the MBR. Otherwise dont look at the link!!
Just incase it saves you going through thousands of links!!!!!
No it does not.
The MBR code hands the boot on to the Active partition, the boot code in
that loads ntldr. There are two cases:
NTLDR not found at all may arise because the incorrect partition has
been set as active, This can happen if you have a dual boot and have
messed with the files in that partition that boot; this is not the XP
one, or have shifted the boot to the XP partition which does not have
ntldr in it.
NTLDR damaged means what it says, file there but not working.
Either way, if you have a proper retail type XP CD, not some makers
recovery disk
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.
Assuming this sees the CD as D (likely) give
COPY D:\i386\ntldr C:\
COPY D:\i386\ntdetec C:\
(a file that may also be missing)
then rebuild the boot configuration boot.ini file by
Attrib -H -R -S C:\boot.ini
(if not found skip the next line)
DEL C:\boot.ini
BootCfg /Rebuild
