Re[2]: Re: [OT] but might be important

["Pete Shew" <pete@xxxxxxx>]

You didn't have a diskette in? Or tried to boot from a CD?

Is your disk FAT or NTFS?

You need, as a minimum, the files NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM and BOOT.INI on a
NT/W2K/XP formatted disk to start the boot process. BOOT.INI has the OS
selection menu and location of the rest of Windows.


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On 25/11/2003 at 23:07 Tim Fletcher wrote:

>My main machine just failed to boot with a NTLDR NOT FOUND message.
>
>I don't know what this is, but when I saw it before it meant formatting
>and reinstalling XP from scratch.
>
>I have taken a ghost image of the drive (it booted at the second time
of
>asking)
>
>Are there any sensible precautions I can take - anything I can do to
fix
>it - is it doomed?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Tim.
>
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regards, Pete
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