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by nerrad01

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Hi there,
I have partitioned my 17 gig hard drive and had WINME on C: and WIN XP on D: Yesterday I started the computer and it came up with the message NTLDR missing. I tried everything I could and eventually did a sys C: to get it working again.The trouble is now I cannot find any XP or the other drive. I know it is there because the C: drive is showing the correct size. I went into fdisk, partition magic and still cannot locate it.
Could someone please give some advice.

Thank you.

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by thechas

If you formatted the XP drive as NTSF, you cannot access it from either Fdisk, or Me.

Try running the recovery console from the XP CD, and repairing your installation.

What ever process deleted ntldr may have deleted or damaged the boot.ini file that is required to load XP.
This file also contains the information for your dual-boot setup.

Chas

by ajsdodd

Boot into ME and copy the Ntldr file from the Windows XP CD-ROM to the C drive.

Now Boot with the XP cd. At the "Welcome to Setup" screen, press F10 or press R to repair, and start the Windows Recovery Console.

At the command Prompt type

fixboot

and press Enter.

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