re: NTLDR missing on dual-boot system
Saturday, February 5, 2005 at 2:34 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by capnfutile
(5 messages posted)
Okay, I'm back up and running computer-wise. Thanks for the help - the Steves were
on the right track. I copied the NT files from the CD after booting with a win98
boot floppy (glad I didn't toss that!) as I couldn't write to the disk using the
recovery console. I edited a new boot.ini file and rebooted. I got the error "Windows
2k could not start beacuse the following file is missing or currupt \system32\ntoskernel.exe". I reasoned that this was because my win2k partition
is not my second partition - refer to this screenshot of my hard drive:
http://img209.exs.cx/img209/304/screenshot1lc.jpg
I just kept adding one to the partition number, saving and rebooting and when I got
to six we were good as gold - I didn't need to run fixboot again.
Okay, now to tempt fate: Next I'd like to do the following:
1: remove current linux partitions and the fat32 data partition
2: resize C: (where I've just re-written the boot.ini) to a minimal size.
3: install XP without farking any of the data in the NTFS data partition (the
final and largest partition)
4: install mandrake and dual boot.
What's the best order to do this in?
Thanks for your help guys - Steves, if I could email you a cold frosty beer, I would!
Capn
On Friday, February 4, 2005 at 7:39 am, Steve Dunn wrote:
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>steve b told you where to find ntldr & ntdetect.com. With those files and boot.ini
>in the root of C:, you then need to return to recovery console and run fixboot again
>(with the 3 files, this will create a new boot sector for you).
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