NTLDR missing any way to correct this?

[Argo]

Recently I formatted drive D and ever since then I'm not able to boot. I get NTLDR missing message during the startup. I have no idea why NTLDR was on D: drive, since OS (Windows 2k Workstation) is installed on drive C:.

Any way to correct this without reinstalling the OS?

 

[Doubolplay1]

More info on this.
Are these separate hd's ?

 

[Argo]

Two partitions on the same HD. I've done this before, so I know for sure it shouldn't be a problem. To the best of my knowledge, no system files were located on drive D.

 

[Daaavo]

This?

 

[rnmcd]

Argo, did you get the problem fixed?

I am tryihg to correct the same problem...without success so far.

Thanks.

 

[rnmcd]

^

 

[TheVrolok]

That link should do it, just fix your boot sector with a rescue CD.

 

[Argo]

In my case the problem was actually caused by formatting the boot drive. For some reason drive D: was boot drive, even though OS was installed on C:. I had no choice but to reformat

 

[clicknext]

This probably isn't the problem, but I thought I would tell you anyway. When I had 2k, once when I tried to start the comp with a non-boot floppy in the drive, it said something is missing.

 

[rnmcd]

I have tried the "fixboot" as suggested by that link but it didn't help.

I have also copied the ntldr file and ntdetect.com file from the WinXP disk to my hard drive and that didn't do anything either.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....and the floppy disk drive is empty.

 

[Vicken]

I saw this here, perhaps this will fix your problem?

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314057

 

[rnmcd]

Thanks Vicken but that link mentioned, "This behavior occurs only if Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Me is installed on a large-capacity drive that uses the FAT32 file system."

I run Win XP Pro on a 30GB NTFS file system.

 

[rnmcd]

^

 

[silent tone]

Somebody said that their active partition and system partition were different

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;228004

Maybe you can make them the same from the recovery console with diskpart.

 

[rnmcd]

Originally posted by: istallion
Somebody said that their active partition and system partition were different

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;228004

Maybe you can make them the same from the recovery console with diskpart.

Is there any way to determine if my active partition and system partition are different if I can't boot into Windows?

thanks again.