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by funkeywoookey

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I had a beta of vista on one partition, and an xp pro on another. since i now have a laptop with a final release of vista, i decided to delete everything on the vista partition and use it for storage.

so, of course, i deleted everything on the vista partition.

when i restart, i get the whole, "ntldr is missing" message.

when i look on the xp partition, there's no boot configuration file (boot.ini). i went ahead and made one, you know. put all the mumbo jumbo in it. still no luck.

any help?
any ideas?

cause im up for anything...especially considering all of my music is on that hard drive...and i really dont wanna copy all of that or spring for an enclosure

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by 4mbient

put in your xp install cd and go into the recovery console and run 'fixboot'.

by ic-it

You will need to copy these files from the CD. Substitute your CD Drive letter for the word drive below.

copy drive:\i386\ntldr c:\

copy drive:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\

then type in this
Bootcfg /rebuild

There is a chance you will still get a failure with something similiar to ntdetect is compressed (I forget it's been awhile) you will then need to return to the RC and use a command similiar to;
ATTRIB -C ntdetect.com

Check Google for the true switch based on the error message.

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