Will_in_SF said:
hi everyone.
I just noticed that I had a second local area connection attached to
my computer. when I tried to get rid of it -- since I had no idea who
or what it was from -- i rebooted the system. Now my computer won't
restart and all I get is a black screen with the above info as stated
in the subject line.
First make sure you don't have a floppy disk in the floppy drive. If you
do, take it out and your computer will boot normally. Otherwise, here
is information from the late Alex Nichol:
The MBR code hands the boot on to the Active partition; the boot code in
that loads NTLDR. There are two cases:
"NTLDR not found" at all may arise because the incorrect partition has
been set as active. This can happen if you have a dual boot and have
messed with the files in that partition that boot; this is not the XP
one, or have shifted the boot to the XP partition which does not have
NTLDR in it.
"NTLDR damaged" means what it says, the file is there but not working.
Either way, if you have a proper retail type XP CD, not some maker's
recovery disk:
Set the BIOS to boot CD before Hard Disk. Boot the XP CD and, instead
of Setup, take the immediate R for Repair. Assume any password
requested is blank, and TAB over.
Assuming this sees the CD as D (likely) give:
COPY D:\i386\ntldr C:\
COPY D:\i386\ntdetec C:\
(a file that may also be missing)
then rebuild the boot configuration boot.ini file by
Attrib -H -R -S C:\boot.ini
(if not found skip the next line)
DEL C:\boot.ini
BootCfg /Rebuild
Malke
