Win2k Start up issues

[Dan Smith]

Hello -

I woke and tried starting my PC this morning and got a
LDRNT not found message and directed to hit any key to
restart. Well, nothing works and I can not get past
this. Restarted many times, and attempted to get into
safe mode, but nothing would work. Any ideas?

 

[Rick]

Hello -

I woke and tried starting my PC this morning and got a
LDRNT not found message and directed to hit any key to
restart. Well, nothing works and I can not get past
this. Restarted many times, and attempted to get into
safe mode, but nothing would work. Any ideas?

Do you have a floppy disk in your A: drive?

Rick

 

[Guest]

Nope...
The system has been acting funny over the past few days,
getting progressively worse - so I'm thinking maybe a
virus that went undetected?

 

[Rick]

Yeah, or a failing hard drive.

Rick

Nope...
The system has been acting funny over the past few days,
getting progressively worse - so I'm thinking maybe a
virus that went undetected?

 

[Dan]

I do hear a bit of a whirring sound when the PC attempts
to start up. Any suggestions?

 

[Rick]

Backup your data and replace the drive ASAP. Better yet,
image the drive with Ghost or another utility so you won't have
to reinstall everything.

Rick

 

[Dan]

Sounds good...but I can't get into the PC. Each time I
turn it on, I immediately get the "LDRNT Failed to
load", "Press any key to restart" - over and over again.

A search on microsoft's support page doesn't turn anything
up on the LDRNT message.

-----Original Message-----
Backup your data and replace the drive ASAP. Better yet,
image the drive with Ghost or another utility so you won't have
to reinstall everything.

Rick

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[Rick]

Is the filename LDRNT instead of NTLDR? NTLDR is the loader
for Win2K, if it's saying LDRNT then you likely have a virus (and
the drive itself might be ok). In that case, boot off the Win2K CD
and try a "Repair" option.

Rick

 

[Dan]

Thanks for all your help Rick. It turns out I had the
letters turned around. It is NTLDR. If I create a boot
disk, that should let me in, right? Then I can back up
all my data and get a new hard drive. Or do you see
another option?

-----Original Message-----
Is the filename LDRNT instead of NTLDR? NTLDR is the loader
for Win2K, if it's saying LDRNT then you likely have a virus (and
the drive itself might be ok). In that case, boot off the Win2K CD
and try a "Repair" option.

Rick

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[Rick]

It really depends how far gone the drive is. If it's spinning up
then you should at least try a repair option as I mentioned earlier,
or go ahead and buy a new drive, install Win2K on it, attach
your existing drive as a secondary disk, and hope that you can
access it that way.

If it can't even spin up or is completely unreadable then your
options are a lot more limited... send it to a data recovery service
(very $$$) or just chuck it and start over.

Rick