NTLDR is missing

From: Richard (Richard.Donaldson_at_Syntegra.com)
Date: 08/16/04


Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 07:32:12 -0700

Ah - no. Good idea, but I don't even have a floppy
drive ;-).

>-----Original Message-----
>I hope I don't offend you, but something that is very
>simple yet often overlooked is the a: drive.
>
>Have you made sure that you don't have a floppy disk in
>the a: drive?
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I am looking for a soloution to a box that won't boot.
>>
>>The error message recived is that it cannot find NTLDR.
>>However, It is there! I have even restored the original
>>version (and ntdetect.com) from the recovery console
>>(booting from CD). I have also tried issuing the
>commands
>>FIXBOOT and FIXMBR to no joy.
>>
>>I have had a look on the KB and its suggesting running a
>>utility called bcupdate2 - bu cannot find where to
>>download it. Any ideas?
>>
>>Richard
>>.
>>
>.
>



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