RE: FN-FORUM: Booting problems

date posted 31st January 2006 11:55

Is that the only way it's going to work? Cos I'll have to take out the hard
drive and put it into another computer!

-----Original Message-----
From: Tiffany Craig [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: 31 January 2006 12:14
To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Booting problems


Best restarting the setup. You might want to try copying the i386
directory to the hard disk and installing from there.


On 31 Jan 2006 11:58:04 -0000, Ian Copeland [EMAIL REMOVED]
wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Got a problem with a PC I am rebuilding.
> I booted from the Win 2k Pro cd and formatted the HD, then it continued to
> install Windows. However, it crashed and sat at 60% (or around there)
> overnight. It wouldn't respond to anything, so I restarted the computer.
> When it went to boot from CD, it came up with the error:
> NTLDR is Missing
> So I created a boot disk:
>
> [boot loader]
> timeout=30
> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
> [operating systems]
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
> Professional" /fastdetect
>
> with NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM files on the floppy aswell.
> When I put this in and boot from floppy it comes up saying:
>
> Windows 200 could not start because the following file is missing or
> corrupt:
> \system32\ntoskrnl.exe
> Please re-install a copy of the above file.
>
>
> Any suggestions?!
>
> Thanks, Ian
>
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