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by punna69

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If ntldr or other boot related filrs were corrupted or deleted the is there is a way to copy from some other system these boot related files to a floppy and boot from a floppy.

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by dmiles

If the machines were the same it may be possible,but NT does not allow to boot from floppy
You will need to create ERD disk from the CD and from i386 run WINNT /OX
You can use the setup disk and Choose the Repair Option to repair the installation.

by ð

Yes you can. The files you'll need are ntldr, ntdetect and boot.ini. Copy the files to a floppy and set the bios to boot from floppy first. Once you are back on in NT, you can copy these 3 files to the c:\ so you dont need the floppy to boot no more.

by uch

Yes! copy NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM & BOOT.INI unto a floopy. However, edit the PATH section of BOOT.INI to reflect that of the HDD. Then boot from floopy & copy the 3 files back to the active partition.

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