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haze
hello,
my winxp won't bootup. the message i receive is "Windows could not
start because the following file is missing or corrupt
system32\drivers\ntfs.sys". nothing out of the ordinary was done when
the machine was last successfully booted up except to install the
windows auto-updates but i cannot recall which one's to be more
specific.
i have tried the following:
1)i booted the machine with my xp cd but i don't get the option to
select R on the welcome to setup screen. There is however the option to
press F2 for the auto recovery but this prompts me to "insert windows
automated system recovery disk into floppy drive - i don't have that.
when i let the cd to continue without selecting any option, another
message appears "file setupdd.sys could not be loaded error code ix 7".
2) I also tried booting with a bootable disk and then trying to get to
my two hard drives c: and D: but when i try to get to these drives, i
get the message 'invalid drive specification". I thought if i could get
to the drive i could replace the ntfs.sys file on the hard drive with
that on the xp cd.
3) I even try to boot the machine in the Safe Mode but the message
above of the ntfs file is missing or corrupt comes up.
the important thing for me is to recover my data on both those hard
drives. any suggestion on how to repair this problem or at least how i
can recover data on both hard drives? any advise will surely help.
thanks,
haze
my winxp won't bootup. the message i receive is "Windows could not
start because the following file is missing or corrupt
system32\drivers\ntfs.sys". nothing out of the ordinary was done when
the machine was last successfully booted up except to install the
windows auto-updates but i cannot recall which one's to be more
specific.
i have tried the following:
1)i booted the machine with my xp cd but i don't get the option to
select R on the welcome to setup screen. There is however the option to
press F2 for the auto recovery but this prompts me to "insert windows
automated system recovery disk into floppy drive - i don't have that.
when i let the cd to continue without selecting any option, another
message appears "file setupdd.sys could not be loaded error code ix 7".
2) I also tried booting with a bootable disk and then trying to get to
my two hard drives c: and D: but when i try to get to these drives, i
get the message 'invalid drive specification". I thought if i could get
to the drive i could replace the ntfs.sys file on the hard drive with
that on the xp cd.
3) I even try to boot the machine in the Safe Mode but the message
above of the ntfs file is missing or corrupt comes up.
the important thing for me is to recover my data on both those hard
drives. any suggestion on how to repair this problem or at least how i
can recover data on both hard drives? any advise will surely help.
thanks,
haze