Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

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Hello,
My computer was working fine yesterday (on windows XP Pro) and today I
turned it on and it said that it was missing NTLDR and wants to restart the
computer. I try using te recovery console but whatever retard designed it
is...well...a retard. It is useless. I would really like to be able to have
some help so that I can keep all of my files which are very important.
Thank You,
Brandon Milonovich
 
Some "retard" must have "compressed" the "system" drive, now it won't boot
because the "boot loader" doesn't know how to uncompress a compressed file -
this don't happen until "Windows" is fully up and running - after going
through and reloading the system from scratch, consider this a "lesson" in
"not" what to do - if compressing the "system" drive, don't compress the
"boot files" found in the root of the "system" drive.

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Excuse me, I have not even touched the system drive nor compressed it. I
can't get into windows and would simply like to know how to decompress it!
Thanks
 
Brandon said:
I tried this and now it says that NTLDR is compressed!
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Boot to the recovery console and try this command:

ATTRIB -C NTLDR

Let us know if this works.

Kerry
 
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.
 
Brandon said:
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.
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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
 
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
 
Brandon said:
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.
Click to expand...

Brandon

It is not looking good for saving your files. It looks like you may have to
format the drive and start again. Before doing that I would make sure it's
not a hardware problem. Bad RAM or a bad hard drive can cause the problems
you are having. A bad power supply can also indirectly cause the problem.
You should try disconnecting all your drives including any CDROM/DVDROM
except for the hard drive you boot from. The power cables and data cables
must be physically disconnected. Disconnect all external devices except
keyboard and mouse. If you have any extra PCI cards installed remove them as
well.This will get your power consumption to a bare minimum. See if it boots
to Windows now. If it does you have a bad power supply or one of the items
you disconnected is bad. If not something else is the problem. If you have
more than one stick of RAM, try removing all but one and see what happens.
Try booting with each stick. If you have only one stick you could try a
memory test program like the one at www.memtest.org You should also go to
www.westerndigital.com and download the diagnostic utility for your hard
drive. Warning! some of the functions in the hard drive diagnostic will
erase your data. Be careful when using it. If none of this works and you
really need the data I would take the computer to good repair shop in your
area.

Kerry
 
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