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jim - 16 Jul 2003 18:33 GMT

Jvogel : Question; After installing win XP Pro i get on bootup a message :Thats
NTLDR is missing This is the loader.
    Jvogel : I have re-installed it several times and re-installed XP
    Jvogel : It is on a IBM Laptop that had win XP Pro on it already.
    Jvogel : What do I do? JIm

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Dave Patrick - 17 Jul 2003 04:26 GMT

Boot your XP CD-Rom, from within the recovery console you can run
fixboot
to repair the boot sector.

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> Jvogel : Question; After installing win XP Pro i get on bootup a message
:Thats
> NTLDR is missing This is the loader.
> Jvogel : I have re-installed it several times and re-installed XP
> Jvogel : It is on a IBM Laptop that had win XP Pro on it already.
> Jvogel : What do I do? JIm

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David 'db' Butler - 29 Aug 2003 04:19 GMT

same thing on Win2k, fixboot didn't change a thing!

> Boot your XP CD-Rom, from within the recovery console you can run
> fixboot
> to repair the boot sector.

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Jiri Tuma - 29 Aug 2003 10:47 GMT

How many partitions do you have on disk? If there is more than one, it is
possible activity flag is set to wrong one. Which will produce the same
error you wrote about.

Yes and NTLDR., NTDETECT.COM and BOOT.INI (and optional NTBOOTDD.SYS and
bootsect image files) should be placed to root folder of system drive,
which is, by MS terminology, partition the machine is booting from (ie. C:
drive). They can be placed also to NT boot floppy to start machine from it
in case your boot sector or NT Loader files are corrupted (NT boot floppy
should be formatted under NT based system to get correct boot sector code).
These files are (by default) system/hidden and, on w2K and WXP, system
protected, so to see them, you need to turn on viewing of such files in your
window explorer settings.

luck

George

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> same thing on Win2k, fixboot didn't change a thing!
>
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> Boston, Mass
> Phone 617 969-0585 Fax 617 964-1590

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