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ntldr boot error
Name: colleen Date: January 11, 2001 at 17:51:43 Pacific
Comment:
Any help would be greatly apprciated Message: Boot: could'nt find NTLDR please insert another disk
will a boot up floppy from another win98 computer work?
problem is on a compaq laptop with win 98, boot disk is from hp win 98 system
Name: Timberwolf Date: January 11, 2001 at 18:01:26 Pacific
Reply:
check to make sure that both disks are the same opperating system. if the boot disk was from windows 98 second edition and the laptop is 1st edition or the other way around it won't work.
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Response Number 2
Name: Buster Date: January 11, 2001 at 18:47:40 Pacific
Reply:
NTLDR is a file that is placed in the c: root directory when Windows 2000 and Windows nt is loaded.
Go to this site for help:
http://www.magma.ca/~louievb/venn/ntldr.html
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Response Number 3
Name: techtony Date: January 11, 2001 at 19:26:29 Pacific
Reply:
Boot with a win9x boot disk and do sys C:
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Response Number 4
Name: HKLM Date: January 11, 2001 at 19:40:38 Pacific
Name: James Date: January 11, 2001 at 19:53:27 Pacific
Reply:
Is it when you boot from the floppy that you get this error? If so, it means the floppy was formated on an NT/2K machine. If it is the hard drive that is doing this, it means that NT/2000 was at one time installed on the HD.
My understanding that this is happening on a boot floppy. What you need to do is do a FULL FORMAT and not a QUICK FORMAT on the floppy. Then create your Win98 startup disk.
But if it is the harddrive that is doing this, it could be a problem with how the original laptop was setup. I have installed Win 9x on machines, then installed Winnt on the same machine, creating a dual boot system. I then edit the BOOT.INI so that the Win 9x starts up immediately. As far as the user is concerned, they have Win 9x. If needed, I can edit one text file and the user then has Windows NT. All their files remain on the computer but their OS changes. If the BOOT.INI gets toasted, the boot process does not know where NTLDR is at and can't start. Could your machine had been set up this way?
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