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Answer» For 3 solid day and nights now, I have been trying to fix my desktop that my 10 yr old "broke"! I've read all the help threads I can, some have gotten me as far as I have, but I still have no recovery from this error. I'm on a HP Pavilion that originally had Windows ME installed. When the COMPUTER boots now, I GET the wonderful "NTLDR is Missing". I've made the ME startup disk from bootdisk.com, managed to get the CD Rom running, and have copied all the FILES from the installation CD to the C: drive in DOS, by running Setup. I CANNOT figure out where to go from here! The computer, after copying the files to the C: drive had told me to remove the bootdisk from the A drive, and Windows would automatically finish setup.....DIDNT HAPPEN! Went right back to the "NTLDR is missing" screen. In DOS, I can't seem to find a boot.ini file anywhere, nor will the computer boot from the CD Drive. I've think I've FOUND the files I need to complete the Windows Setup, but I dont know how to access the file, and get it to run. It says the .exe file can't be run from DOS. Keep in mind that I am a complete idiot when it comes to computers, and I've only managed to get this far by following direct, and explicit, directions and samples I've viewed from this site. I would greatly appreciate any direction and advice as to how to get this PC back to booting to Windows, but you'll need to direct me as if you're directing a kindergardener, because I am really that computer stupid!!! Thanks for letting me vent!How about some details on the machine, if you have a restore CD or a real Windows CD, what exactly happened when it "broke", etc.?What happened was, all he ever really did was download music, so he was on the computer listening to music, and the computer "crashed". It automatically rebooted itself, and then wouldn't boot at all. The only thing that comes up now is, NTLDR is Missing. The CD that I have in the CD ROM now is the original Windows Installation CD, I didn't have a recovery cd. But I copied all the files from it to the C drive, but still can't find any boot files to make the computer REBOOT, not even in safe mode! I dont know if maybe he downloaded a virus, and that's what caused the "crash", and I dont know how to check for virus' in DOS. Would that have been determined in the scandisk operation that was performed?? I dunno. I'm lost. I would just like to be able to reboot the computer into Windows. i use xp, not 2000 but i may have a solution to your problem, NTLDR probably isnt missing , its located at c:\windows\I386\NTLDR if your computer has an A:\ drive a diskette inside of it could be the cause, im going to assume you no how to get to the recovery console ?? after your in recovery console on the cd , log in as the administrator and if your cd drive is D:\ Type COPY D:i386NTLDR C: and then COPY D:i386NTDETECT.COM C: then take out the cd and reboot.. |
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