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Ntldr is missing (Read 42713 times)
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Re: Ntldr is missing
Reply #15 -
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, 2011 at 12:16am
Yeah Brian, SATA2 (A1) will boot every time... is that what we want to know?
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That's great. Now you have to add the other HD and get both booting correctly. I don't understand your booting method. Do you use a boot menu or do you swap HDs in the BIOS.
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That's great. Now you have to add the other HD and get both booting correctly. I don't understand your booting method. Do you use a boot menu or do you swap HDs in the BIOS.
I was using the boot menu but it wasn't letting my hard drive with the c:\ boot up so I swapped them in the BIOS and it worked one time but switched back after that. But it will always boot if I use SATA 2 (A1) and don't connect SATA 1 (A0). ok?
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Is that the Microsoft Boot Menu? White text on a black background?
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Reply #19 -
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, 2011 at 1:17am
hi brian...long night huh?
it's in the Boot Menu in the Award BIOS. And it's a blue on white background. If that is the right thing you asked about. Otherwise I got through the whole BIOS menu which has everything in the BIOS in about ten menu items with drill downs.
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OK. I'm not familiar with that.
When each WinXP is booted, does it see itself as C: drive?
Edit... Can you post the contents of the boot.ini in your current booting WinXP?
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Brian wrote
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, 2011 at 2:15am:
OK. I'm not familiar with that.
When each WinXP is booted, does it see itself as C: drive?
Edit... Can you post the contents of the boot.ini in your current booting WinXP?
Sorry Brian but I am not current with this. Where do I find the boot.ini ? I did a search and it coulldn't find one.
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Reply #22 -
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, 2011 at 3:28am
Right click My Computer, Properties, Advanced tab, Startup and Recovery Settings, Edit. There it is. Copy and paste the text.
It's a late night for you. 1827 here.
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, 2011 at 3:28am:
Right click My Computer, Properties, Advanced tab, Startup and Recovery Settings, Edit. There it is. Copy and paste the text.
It's a late night for you. 1827 here.
There you go.
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
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Reply #24 -
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Thanks for that. As expected. Good.
What happens if you connect the other HD (as the only HD in the computer) to the SATA port the current HD is using?
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, 2011 at 4:13am:
Thanks for that. As expected. Good.
What happens if you connect the other HD (as the only HD in the computer) to the SATA port the current HD is using?
If I connect the other HD to the SATA port the currnet HD is using, as the only HD in the compter, it displays the "NTLDR is missing" message and won't boot.
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Reply #26 -
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Jordan,
With that current HD still in place, boot from the Ghost CD.....
Utilities
Edit boot.ini
In Select the source boot.ini drive, choose C:
dot in Edit
In the Filename field, type C:\boot.ini
Next
Finish
What is in that boot.ini?
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Brian wrote
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, 2011 at 1:17pm:
Jordan,
With that current HD still in place, boot from the Ghost CD.....
Utilities
Edit boot.ini
In Select the source boot.ini drive, choose C:
dot in Edit
In the Filename field, type C:
oot.ini
Next
Finish
What is in that boot.ini?
After entering Utilities and clicking Edit boot.ini it displayed a message ' No boot.ini files were found.'
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Reply #28 -
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I deleted boot.ini from my WinXP, booted from the Ghost CD and saw the same error you saw.
But my WinXP booted after showing an Invalid boot.ini message. Something nasty has happened to your WinXP. Can you restore an image to that HD? Or is that the HD you restored yesterday?
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Brian wrote
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, 2011 at 1:55pm:
I deleted boot.ini from my WinXP, booted from the Ghost CD and saw the same error you saw.
But my WinXP booted after showing an Invalid boot.ini message. Something nasty has happened to your WinXP. Can you restore an image to that HD? Or is that the HD you restored yesterday?
Something nasty? Nothing is on that drive except ghost backup images. How could it possibly boot from that? As I said everything works fine with just the one hard drive connected. It's the second drive connecting that is the problem. And that is where all the Ghost backups are.
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