I'm on a dual boot system, with XP and Linux, I used partition magic to take some of the XP partition (7gb to be exact) and I was going to add another operating system and make it a tri boot I suppose. This is the Beta version of Windows Vista that I was trying to add. Needless to say the installation of Vista failed almost immediatly, and on next boot it failed to boot anywhere and said cannot find operating system or something to that effect. I went into the recovery console and tried fixmbr, no luck. I tried fixboot and it wants to put it in the G: drive for some reason when my main xp partition is in the C: drive which is recognizes as still there in the recovery console, so I didn't lose anything. After all of that i now get 'nltdr is missing' on boot. I had been using GRUB as my dual boot method so that part is all in linux, at this point that can stay there, and I'll settle for it booting straight to XP so i was willing to wipe the whole boot record so I can at least get it to boot somewhere. I tried copying the nltdr file from the recovery disc directly to C:\ and it seems to still not see it. I'm out of ideas...anyone have any?

This may help. Don't know about multi=boot systems. http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm

per: Damn, it's been a month of Sundays--and Saturdays, too! How are things in California? Here in FL, we're keeping the plywood ready for the next hurricane. All the best, buddy. 8-) Solarian

Hey Solarian, I'm stunned to see you back posting. It's always great to see you around. i_XpUser

XpUser: Thanks for the kind words. I wish I could sign in to CN more often, help members, and exchange a few thoughts with CN buddies, such as yourself. But work (computer-related and otherwise) has kept my visits here unfortunately short. However, even though I don't often post, I see your helpful tips and sources when I do visit. Keep up the good work. 8-) Sincerely, Solarian

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Hah, I had this exact same problem the other day. The recovery console would NOT let me copy ntldr from the Windows XP cd to c:\. If I tried to do so, the recovery console would place ntldr in C:\WINDOWS which is NOT where it needs to be. Well I was like "I'll be damned if I going to lose all my data and reinstall windows" So I installed XP on a second hard drive and this automatically placed a copy of ntldr on my primary hard drive (if it hadn't, installing windows on a second hard drive would have allowed me to copy ntldr manually to my primary hard drive anyway) Anyway, that was the end of that :). Asus P4P800 P4 2.4c @ 3000 Mhz Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu HSF ATI Radeon 9800 pro 1 GB OCZ pc 3500 ram Sound Blaster audigy LS