Fragmented NTLDR file

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Diskeeper is reporting that my ntldr file is fragmented. Repeated running of
diskeeper will not unfragment the file.

All is running OK but should I be concerned with this? Previous times I have
ran diskeeper all files were defragged. Why this one?

Thanks
 
Diskeeper is reporting that my ntldr file is fragmented. Repeated running of
diskeeper will not unfragment the file.

All is running OK but should I be concerned with this? Previous times I have
ran diskeeper all files were defragged. Why this one?

Thanks
 
RHinNC said:
Diskeeper is reporting that my ntldr file is fragmented. Repeated running of
diskeeper will not unfragment the file.

All is running OK but should I be concerned with this? Previous times I have
ran diskeeper all files were defragged. Why this one?
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It is odd that it should get fragmented. But it only gets used once in
any session - it is the initial loader for the system. So as long as
things are loading and running, I should not worry too much. Perhaps
make a copy to a floppy that could easily be restored *should* it later
give trouble
 
Thanks Alex.

I will make a copy for safekeeping.

If/when this file stops working, what sort of problem will I have?

Thanks
 
RHinNC said:
I will make a copy for safekeeping.

If/when this file stops working, what sort of problem will I have?
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It would be a failure to boot. Maybe ntldr missing (there are other
possible causes for that) maybe just hanging. You would then need to
boot the XP CD; take the R option, and use the DOS style copy command to
copy it back. The sequence:

ATTRIB -H -R -S C:\ntldr
COPY A:\ntldr C:\ntldr
ATTRIB +H +R +S C:\ntldr


BTW while making such a backup I would also include C:\boot.ini and the
two activation database files - c:\windows\system32\wpa.dbl and wpa.bak
- just in case of damage to any of them, which does seem to happen
occasionally. It will all go on a floppy
 
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