TCH-Rob Posted December 5, 2004 Posted December 5, 2004 My wifes computer decided to reboot itself after I moved some archived email to another partition and there was a quick warning about the computer rebooting in a few seconds. I shutdown while getting on my computer to see if I can find something quick to do before booting up and removing the virus. Upon reboot I get an error that NTLDR is missing. So I copy NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM to a bootable flopy and then copy them to her c drive. Reboot, same error. I check the contents of her c drive figuring I can put the OS disk in and just copy from there if needed and the only files on her c drive now are the NTLDR and NTDETECT files. Anyone seen this? I didnt think it deleted the entire drive with most of these. Quote
Madmanmcp Posted December 5, 2004 Posted December 5, 2004 What OS? Where did you get this NTLDR, your PC or the one in error? You need the NTLDR, BOOT.INI and NTDETECT.COM, and possibly NTBOOTDD.SYS. Quote
TCH-Rob Posted December 5, 2004 Author Posted December 5, 2004 Both win2k machines. I will see if I can get the other files and try that. Copying files from mine to hers. Quote
Madmanmcp Posted December 5, 2004 Posted December 5, 2004 Copying files from mine to hers. Thats what I was afraid of If these are identical PC's this would be possible, but if they are not you could run into problems. The files tell the system where to boot and what to boot. If there are different boot partitions on each you will get crazy results or nothing. Quote
Madmanmcp Posted December 5, 2004 Posted December 5, 2004 Or you can try the Receovery Console. Try this web site h_tp://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000627.htm Quote
TCH-Rob Posted December 5, 2004 Author Posted December 5, 2004 No help, Repair then Console shows no OS installed. Quote
Madmanmcp Posted December 5, 2004 Posted December 5, 2004 My wifes computer decided to reboot itself after I moved some archived email to another partition If you had multiple partitions I would start checking those. Maybe the OS was not on C but on another partition. If the boot.ini is pointing to the wrong partition or specifies the wrong OS for the partition it will not work. Since you are using the boot.ini from a different computer this could explain things. Quote
Madmanmcp Posted December 6, 2004 Posted December 6, 2004 Hows this going Rob? Did you recover or reinstall? Quote
Don Posted December 6, 2004 Posted December 6, 2004 I suspect you've got a diskette in your drive which it's trying to boot from. Remove it. Quote
TCH-Rob Posted December 6, 2004 Author Posted December 6, 2004 No disk in the drive, none in the CD drives. Going to another computer tonight that has Win2K as the only OS to get the required files and will try tonight to move the files over. Quote
TCH-Rob Posted December 8, 2004 Author Posted December 8, 2004 Slaved her drive to mine and there are 3 folders in her C drive found.000 WinNT and WUTemp. Guess we go for the reinstall. Quote
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