I suspected a corruption in my primary Win2000 drive. To test the thesis, I loaded Win2000 on a second drive (master drive / secondary ide) and subsequently confirmed my suspicion.
However, when I change the BIOS to boot from this new OS installation, the error “NTLDR not found” appears. Upon examing the new drive, I noted that none of the usual key system files (ntldr, boot.ini, command.com, io.sys etc) are present. Apparently, the new install put the boot files (overwriting the original copies) on the old drive, and simply installed the WINNT directory on the second drive.
If I copy the missing files from the first drive to the second, how can I get the system to recognize this? I noted the commands FIX MBR and FIX BOOTSECTOR in the helpfile for under Recovery Console (which is installed already on the first drive), but am not clear of the proper usage or sequence – if these are the solution.
Thanks in advance