Alan Priol wrote: > Just had a disastrous set-up of Windows XP as a duel boot to Windows 98. > During a required restart, the set-up froze. This wiped out any way to > access my computer including Windows 98. Hours later, was able to load > Windows 98. Now when the computer is started I get a message " NTLDR is > missing Press any key to continue". This then brings up "Boot Failure, > insert Boot diskette and press any key". Although the required NTLDR is > in the root directory I load a disk with the required files and continue > to access Windows 98 from there. How can I restore my normal boot up?
I had come against to a similar problem. I "fdisk /mbr"-ed the hard disk and then deleted ntldr.exe and some other files. Caution: I don't recall exactly what I had done so be sure not to remove any critical files. Generally, leaving them there does not harm. > Running Windows 98 set-up again failed to fix it. Is the problem in the > Master Boot Record and would running Fdisk /MBR restore the correct > record without completely wrecking my Windows 98 OS? I can't think of a way that an "fdisk /mbr" could access anything more than the master boot record of the hard disk. So, executing the particular command with the particular option is considered to be safe. -- tnu ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
