I had two OSES installed Windows XP and Windows XP x64 SP2. Both were installed on a same drive but on diffrent partitions, since I wasn't using my 32bit windows I decided to delete it and merge partitions. I have done this before, so I thought there shouldn't be any problems. Unfortunately I forgot that everything needed to boot both OSes (like boot.ini) was on the same partition with my 32bit windows, so after merging nothing would load (I can't remember the exact error message, it was late at night yesterday, but I believe it's not important here). Luckily I found old Debian CD, so I cut a new partition from my drive and install it. After playing a bit with grub, I manage to start booting windows.
However it says "NTLDR is missing."
I used on of this sites amazing guides to recover NTLDR and NTLDR.COM files from my windows install CD.
There comes another problem there is no boot.ini so I need to create one, I tried to use windows install CD to automatically generate it with "bootcfg /rebuild" but it failed, since I had ext3 partition. So I created it manually
(here it is)
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timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
and after few tries I found the correct partition with my windows and it actually started to load. I get the black screen with windows logo in the middle and a line with blue running cubes, then I see the same screen that you see when you select users to login into windows and mouse pointer appears. However instead of userlist there is windows logo and loading hangs up on this point, I tried to wait (~5min) but nothing changed.
At this point I'm lost and need advice.It seems like you're pretty close. It seems like you have everything except User Accounts. You might have to perform a Repair Install.

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

1. Try removing the /noexecute=optin from the boot.ini, it's only for 32-bit Windows.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963892.aspxQuote

1. Try removing the /noexecute=optin from the boot.ini, it's only for 32-bit Windows.

You might have to perform a Repair Install.

I've tried it, but it still hangs on the same place as before.Something like this http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/tips/doug92.mspx ?
Will Repair install cause any data losses?

By the way, there is one weird thing, I've cut my hdd many times, and after each time when I booted to windows, It did some kind of disk scan (can't remember how exactly it was called) to identify how large partition is now. However this time it never made it, maybe this is the cause and I need to run it manually somehow.