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Laptop will not allow reformat
Name: Rkyro22 Date: January 3, 2006 at 12:06:25 Pacific OS: Windows Xp CPU/Ram: Centrino 512 ddr
Comment:
I bought a laptop off someone, seems to have a software issue, i tired booting from cd to do a clean install. but it gives me this error (Cannot Find Ntldr)
If i attempt to run windows from any option from the boot screen is gives me this error
c0000218 (registry file failure) the registry cannot load the hive (file) \systemroot\system\config\software or its log or alternate. it is corrupt, absent, or not writeable. beginning dump of physical memory <--(Blue Screen)
Name: Rkyro22 Date: January 3, 2006 at 12:07:34 Pacific
Reply:
would anyone happen to have any ideas
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Response Number 2
Name: Steve Dunn Date: January 3, 2006 at 12:12:18 Pacific
Reply:
1. Are you sure you've set it to boot from CD? (missing ntldr is more associated with hard & floppy drives). If you are, are you sure the CD drive and the install CD are both good?
2. Second issue is a corrupted registry file (may be corrupt filestore or file). To fix this, first approach I'd take would be to run chkdsk (but need to be able to boot from CD to get into recovery console, or run something like Bart's PE). Second approach is to restore the problem file from backup - which again need to boot from CD. Unless you have an adapter to allow you to connect drive to normal PC.
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Response Number 3
Name: Rkyro22 Date: January 3, 2006 at 12:16:26 Pacific
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"If you are, are you sure the CD drive and the install CD are both good?" ...........This is what i was wondering about. It seems like a good guess that the cd drive may be bad.
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Response Number 4
Name: jam Date: January 3, 2006 at 12:47:11 Pacific
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Is the CD drive set as the 1st boot device in the BIOS?
This space for rent
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Response Number 5
Name: Rkyro22 Date: January 3, 2006 at 12:48:40 Pacific
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Yes sir, it is set as the first, but it fails to load the disc, This erroe shows (Cannot Find Ntldr)
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Response Number 6
Name: Wombat Date: January 3, 2006 at 13:27:07 Pacific
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