Restoring NTLDR

[Alex Marshall]

Hey all,

I have a pretty funky boot configuration due to some experiments I was
running with booting linux and windows 2000 in addition to windows xp. I
have a 400 mb partition before my primary partition which now has Windows XP
on it. Anyways, I wound up deleting Windows 2000 and my distro of linux,
and I had just windows xp booting on its own loader. I now wanted to delete
the 400 mb partition that I was using as a boot partition, but when I set my
XP partition ( second partition on the hard drive ) to active, I forgot to
copy the NTLDR and other boot files necessary before I changed the active
partition. Is there any way to get them back from the XP cd when I go into
the recovery console?


Alex Marshall

[Harry Ohrn]

check here http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm and scroll to
Repair Boot sector

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Harry Ohrn - MS MVP (Windows Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/
www.webtree.ca/newlife/


"Alex Marshall" > wrote in message
...
> Hey all,
>
> I have a pretty funky boot configuration due to some experiments I was
> running with booting linux and windows 2000 in addition to windows xp. I
> have a 400 mb partition before my primary partition which now has Windows
XP
> on it. Anyways, I wound up deleting Windows 2000 and my distro of linux,
> and I had just windows xp booting on its own loader. I now wanted to
delete
> the 400 mb partition that I was using as a boot partition, but when I set
my
> XP partition ( second partition on the hard drive ) to active, I forgot to
> copy the NTLDR and other boot files necessary before I changed the active
> partition. Is there any way to get them back from the XP cd when I go
into
> the recovery console?
>
>
> Alex Marshall
>
>

[Alex Marshall]

Actually, I had already tried that and it didn't work. However, I didn't
format the first partition on the driver after I had deactivated it, so the
requisite files were still there and I was able to use the repair console to
copy files from that drive. Thank-you for your input nonetheless.

Alex Marshall

"Harry Ohrn" > wrote in message
...
> check here http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm and scroll to
> Repair Boot sector
>
> --
>
> Harry Ohrn - MS MVP (Windows Shell/User]
> www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/
> www.webtree.ca/newlife/
>
>
> "Alex Marshall" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I have a pretty funky boot configuration due to some experiments I was
> > running with booting linux and windows 2000 in addition to windows xp.
I
> > have a 400 mb partition before my primary partition which now has
Windows
> XP
> > on it. Anyways, I wound up deleting Windows 2000 and my distro of
linux,
> > and I had just windows xp booting on its own loader. I now wanted to
> delete
> > the 400 mb partition that I was using as a boot partition, but when I
set
> my
> > XP partition ( second partition on the hard drive ) to active, I forgot
to
> > copy the NTLDR and other boot files necessary before I changed the
active
> > partition. Is there any way to get them back from the XP cd when I go
> into
> > the recovery console?
> >
> >
> > Alex Marshall
> >
> >
>
>