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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Unable to start system due to the "NTLDR" file missing

Repair Missing NTLDR using Recovery Console 





First you must reboot the system from your xp cdrom.

Then when prompted select the option to enter the recovery console.

Select the installation to be repaired followed by the administrator password.

Type Fixboot and answer yes to the prompt.

Then type in the following commands and leave all spaces eactly as they appear here:

CD \
ATTRIB -H NTLDR
ATTRIB -S NTLDR
ATTRIB -R NTLDR
ATTRIB -H NTDETECT.COM
ATTRIB -S NTDETECT.COM
ATTRIB -R NTDETECT.COM
COPY X:\I386\NTLDR C:\ ( X IS THE LETTER OF YOUR CDROM )
COPY X:\I386\NTDETECT.COM C:\ ( X IS THE LETTER OF YOUR CDROM )
reboot


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4 comments:

  1. Best,But let me know,does it work on Windows 7 O/S?
    -Rahul

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  2. For Win7 & Windows Vista, you need to follow System Recovery options to fix this problem.
    -Amol

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  3. If we directly replace ntldr witout attrib command dose it work or not.

    --Rock

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  4. It will work if the previous 'ntldr' is not present at the location.
    _Amol.

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