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boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect problems? look here

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mbentley

Gloriously Lead, Overclockix Chief Architect
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i have seen a lot of threads about people having issues with their boot.ini, ntldr and ntdetect.com files, preventing startup. i recently went through the microsoft reference library and dug up this article (i went there cause i accidently set my boot partition as unactive, leaving me unable to boot)

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;318728

this will tell you how to troubleshoot your boot errors and there is a link to another article on how to create a boot disk that will act as your boot files and start up windows like a charm (that is if you get errors about the 3 files mentioned above when trying to boot, if your computer just freezes with a blinking cursor, or if you get an "invalid system disk, please insert system disk" message)

this only works for windows 2000 and windows xp systems.
 
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