I have an NT pc that gets past the bios screen and then just sits there with a blinking cursor. I set it up as a slave in another PC and ran scandisk, it had bunch of errors but they were repaired, but still will not boot up. I don't have the emergeny repair disks, I didn't setup this machine :) Thanks for the help.

The hang could be all manner of items... Notwithstanding, do you have the NT CD? If so, and the bios allows, boot via CD and run the Repair routine. If no CD boot allowed, then use another PC to make a set of NT set-up floppies and run set-up from those. If Repair fails, then go for an Upgrade. If that fails go a second/parallel install - give it slghtly different name - e.g. winnt-2 so as to distinguish it from damaged system? The Repair/Upgrade routes will/should preserve all Apps. setting/access etc.; the parallel install will have no (or little) access to apps; but data will/should be accessible? One of the above should allow you back in if drive is OK and you haven't changed any hardware just prior to problems? Did you do anything to this installation/system prior to problem?

your system is looking for the boot sector-from my experience the fastest way to get up and running is to do a full parallel install of nt, do not format! keep the existing os and data as is, when promted for directory change from default of winnt to winnt2 or similar. reboot and take a look at the original copy of nt to find the problem. you may have to copy some system files from winnt2 to winnt. when you find the problem rename winnt2 to winnt and reboot. I have had to do this on an nt server with 4Gb of data late on a sunday night and it got me through. good luck!