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Tony
Hope someone out there can help me with this headache.
Got amd 2500 barton with 1gig ddr ram,asus deluxe motherboard and maxtor
120gig sata harddrive. Running XP home with SP2. Built it myself bout 9
months ago.
Screen froze few days ago so I had no option other than press reset. On boot
up got message NTLDR missing press cntrl+alt+delete.I tried booting from XP
disc and pressing R to repair. Get error message relating to ntfs.sys.
I never made a back up disc (yes I know!) so I did the web search and
checked out Microsofts forums/bulletins.
Every where tells me to press F8 to get into the menu which I can do. None
of the options will work for me,the pc just reboots.
Ive downloaded boot discs which contain boot ini and ntldr and the pc sees
them but wont do any thing with em.
I can get the files off the xp disc onto a floppy but I cant see any way of
copying them onto the duff pc.
In some desperation I just ordered another Maxtor 120 gig sata drive which I
will install and maybe be able to install XP onto that with the aim of being
able to access the duff hard drive...got files on there I will need.
I seem to have a pc that is totally inaccesible.
Would appreciate any help on this,I cant believe its impossible to revive.I
dont understand what happened in the first instance.
Microsoft talk about the MBR being excessively fragmented?
Cheers,
Tony
Got amd 2500 barton with 1gig ddr ram,asus deluxe motherboard and maxtor
120gig sata harddrive. Running XP home with SP2. Built it myself bout 9
months ago.
Screen froze few days ago so I had no option other than press reset. On boot
up got message NTLDR missing press cntrl+alt+delete.I tried booting from XP
disc and pressing R to repair. Get error message relating to ntfs.sys.
I never made a back up disc (yes I know!) so I did the web search and
checked out Microsofts forums/bulletins.
Every where tells me to press F8 to get into the menu which I can do. None
of the options will work for me,the pc just reboots.
Ive downloaded boot discs which contain boot ini and ntldr and the pc sees
them but wont do any thing with em.
I can get the files off the xp disc onto a floppy but I cant see any way of
copying them onto the duff pc.
In some desperation I just ordered another Maxtor 120 gig sata drive which I
will install and maybe be able to install XP onto that with the aim of being
able to access the duff hard drive...got files on there I will need.
I seem to have a pc that is totally inaccesible.
Would appreciate any help on this,I cant believe its impossible to revive.I
dont understand what happened in the first instance.
Microsoft talk about the MBR being excessively fragmented?
Cheers,
Tony