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by alshayne

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I migrated my current hard drive to a new pc with Pentium 4 Win XP Professional. I have two hard drives. After copying the files over to the new hard drive, I tried to boot into Win XP and got the message "NTDRL Missing". I booted from the Win XP CD and ran copy ntdrl to c:, file not found on XP CD. I also ran fixboot from the repair menue, that did not work either. Can you help with a solution this problem?

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by joseph moore

Try this Technet article:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=119467

It will tell you how to make a NTFS partition boot disk that you can use to boot XP. YOu can then look at its Event Viewer logs to see what is going on. You could also run SFC to scan and repair Windows system files, including NTLDR.

hope this helps

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