Re: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

From: Brandon (Brandon_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/15/05


Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:47:02 -0800

Ok then,
I have not added any software or hardware recently. The first time I did
the repair install it restarted after doing it and still had the same
problem. Now I don't have the option to do the repair install and even
though I have tried the things to get a repair install it does not work. I
couldn't get into safe mode because the NTLDR problem occured, now it still
doesn't do any good because that error I told you about comes up. I have a
western digital 120 gb hard drive. I am not sure what you mean SATA but it
is hooked up by the IDE cable. (not external). SP2 has been installed for
quite some time (XP Pro). I did the repair from the original XP CD with out
SP2 so I guess that means it is not slipstreamed.

Thanks again

"Kerry Brown" wrote:

> "Brandon" <Brandon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:009FEBCC-AF42-4A3A-8BAC-EAB39533527C@microsoft.com...
> > Hello,
> > I tried this like you said but now it acts like it is going to load and
> > then
> > it says that it can't find the file \windows\system32\config\system (It
> > also
> > may be corrupt). This is really starting to tick me off. Please help me
> > soon, I need my computer soooo bad. I also found on another website a
> > thing
> > that said to put the ntldr file, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini file on a disk
> > and boot to that but it gives me the same problem.
> >
>
> Have you recently added anything to your computer (hardware or software)?
> Sometimes bad RAM or a bad hard drive can cause Windows to think that files
> are corrupt. After doing the repair install what happened? Did you
> immediately get the NTLDR error the first time it tried to boot? Did you try
> safe mode at that point? What type of hard drive do you have? Is it SATA?
> What size is it? Had you installed SP2 before you had this problem? If so
> did the disk you did the repair install from have SP2 slipstreamed?
>
> This seems like a lot of questions but you are asking for help and giving us
> very little information.
>
> Kerry
>
> > "Kerry Brown" wrote:
> >
> >> "Brandon" <Brandon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:90157BE9-150C-4FBB-A167-62AFCAD7D3E1@microsoft.com...
> >> >I tried this and now it says that NTLDR is compressed!
> >> >
> >>
> >> Boot to the recovery console and try this command:
> >>
> >> ATTRIB -C NTLDR
> >>
> >> Let us know if this works.
> >>
> >> Kerry
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>



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