- Joined
- Oct 2, 2001
- Location
- San Jose, California
Hi all,
Here’s the problem:
My sister brought over her main office computer panicking. No recent back-up!!!!!!!
It had crashed and would not boot. It gave the message NTDETECT.COM FAILED. I Have not been able to even get into safe mode. FDISK shows normal partition stuff.
I have tried the following tricks using the Recovery Console:
1) used chkdsk /r to repair and recover data. I first ran chkdsk and it told me that there was problems with the volume- so I ran chkdsk /r. It was completed successfully and did not that sectors were bad and repaired.
2) Scanned the boot sector with Norton anti-virus (reported no viruses)
3) Used fixboot. And successfully redid a new boot sector.
4) Used ‘fixmbr’ to redo the master boot record. ********(when I did this step I was warned that “THE COMPUTER SEEMS TO HAVE A NONSTANDARD OR INVALID MBR”
5) Used ‘Copy’ to copy and replace a new ntdetect.com from a floppy to the i386 (successfully)
Despite everything I’m still getting ntdetect.com failed and no boot?
I do not know what else to try. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Are there more files that I could try to replace?
Thanks in advance!!!!!!!!!!!!
Doug
Here’s the problem:
My sister brought over her main office computer panicking. No recent back-up!!!!!!!
It had crashed and would not boot. It gave the message NTDETECT.COM FAILED. I Have not been able to even get into safe mode. FDISK shows normal partition stuff.
I have tried the following tricks using the Recovery Console:
1) used chkdsk /r to repair and recover data. I first ran chkdsk and it told me that there was problems with the volume- so I ran chkdsk /r. It was completed successfully and did not that sectors were bad and repaired.
2) Scanned the boot sector with Norton anti-virus (reported no viruses)
3) Used fixboot. And successfully redid a new boot sector.
4) Used ‘fixmbr’ to redo the master boot record. ********(when I did this step I was warned that “THE COMPUTER SEEMS TO HAVE A NONSTANDARD OR INVALID MBR”
5) Used ‘Copy’ to copy and replace a new ntdetect.com from a floppy to the i386 (successfully)
Despite everything I’m still getting ntdetect.com failed and no boot?
I do not know what else to try. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Are there more files that I could try to replace?
Thanks in advance!!!!!!!!!!!!
Doug