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re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup'
Monday, January 20, 2003 at 12:35 pm
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Posted by chris bradbury (1 messages posted)


hi - i was getting the ntfs.sys is corrupt or missing message so i copied the file to cd from another xp machine, booted up the problematic PC in safe mode and copied the file over the old one. it worked alright after that.


On Thursday, October 31, 2002 at 9:00 am, Nathan wrote:
>I have been receiving an intermittent error at start-up for Windows XP. The error
>is as follows. "Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing
>or corrupt: \windows\system32\drivers\fastfat.sys"
>
>If I just push reset it will reboot and go into windows fine. I have tried to repair
>the file but have had not luck.
>
>I just re-formatted my Hard drive last night, this time I used the NTFS format and
>on my first boot up I got the exact same error, only it referred to the NTFS.sys
>file. I haven't even put any other software on it yet.
>
>Any help or suggestions would be appreciated
>
>Thanks,
>Nathan
>
>


Written in response to:
Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Nathan: Thursday, October 31, 2002 at 9:00 am)

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*re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Jason Carlin: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 8:25 am)

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-Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Nathan: Thu, Oct 31, 2002, 9:00 am)
-re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Bob Hohmann: Thu, Oct 31, 2002, 10:02 am)
-re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Nathan: Thu, Oct 31, 2002, 10:09 am)
*re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Ricer46: Thu, Oct 31, 2002, 11:12 am)
-re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Danielle: Mon, Oct 11, 2004, 8:53 pm)
*re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (2tec: Sun, Oct 29, 2006, 2:17 pm)
-re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Wrangler: Mon, Dec 2, 2002, 2:43 pm)
-re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (bengseng: Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 1:00 am)
*re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (dethwulf: Mon, Oct 20, 2003, 4:11 am)
*Safe mode screen comes up (Rinku: Fri, Nov 21, 2003, 6:49 pm)
*re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (vinod: Tue, Nov 18, 2003, 6:17 pm)
*re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (macdaddy: Sun, Sep 5, 2004, 3:04 am)
*re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (lazy999: Mon, Oct 4, 2004, 6:56 am)
*re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (John Dumont: Mon, Oct 2, 2006, 11:00 am)
*re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Eric Stanaway: Wed, Dec 11, 2002, 7:10 am)
-re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (chris bradbury: Mon, Jan 20, 2003, 12:35 pm)
-re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Jason Carlin: Tue, Jan 21, 2003, 8:25 am)
*re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Jimmy Bomar: Fri, Jan 24, 2003, 9:03 pm)
*re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (info: Mon, Feb 3, 2003, 11:52 am)
-re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Chris: Thu, May 15, 2003, 12:34 pm)
-re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Kris: Tue, Oct 7, 2003, 9:10 pm)
*re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Chris: Wed, Oct 8, 2003, 3:55 pm)
-re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (hardik: Mon, Sep 17, 2007, 2:13 am)
*re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Benny: Sun, Oct 21, 2007, 5:13 am)
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