Peter
December 11th 03, 09:41 PM
Hi,
Try borrow a XP CD from your friend and boot from the XP
CD to recovery console.
You might try this, though I doubt it will work,
Re-extract the files 'NTLDR' and 'ntdetect.com'
again, from the XP CD.
(CD Boot - Recovery Console Prompt)
copy F:\i386\NTLDR C:\
copy F:\i386\NTDETECT.COM C:\
Where F stand for your CD rom drive, substitute it with
the correct drive name.
If no avial, you may need to buy an XP CD and perform a
repair install of XP.
However, you may need a XP CD sooner or later if you want
to stay with XP; recovery CD is of no use.
Peter
>-----Original Message-----
>(I am sending this from my wife's computer, BTW. My
>computer is inaccesible, as detailed below).
>
>I have XP on an eMachine computer.
>
>Tonight I defragged my files. Then I used the Windows
>option to "clean" drive C. I believe that the "compress
>disk" option was also checked.
>
>At some point my open applications began performing
>erratically. Then I noticed that about half of the
>applications seemed to be missing or at least could not
be
>found.
>
>I checked the properties for drive C. Previously, it
>showed about 18 Gigs of space in use, and about 2 Gigs
>free. Now it showed approximately 10 Gigs in use and 10
>Gigs free.
>
>I figured maybe this had something to do with my having
>compressed the drive. Now though, I wonder if I
actually
>erased half of my files, including the system boot files.
>
>I shut down the computer, then turned it back on. I got
>the eMachines logo, then the message, "NTLDR missing,"
>and the advice to type ctrl-alt-del to restart. But
>typing ctrl-alt-del just gets me to the same message.
>
>Somehow (maybe by hitting keys when the eMachines logo
was
>still showing), I was able at one point to get to an A:
>prompt. From there I tried typing C: to see if it would
>take me to my hard drive. But it just gave me a message
>indicating that drive C: did not exist.
>
>I did not receive any XP disks, per se, with this
>computer. No emergency boot disks or anything. What I
>got was a set of eMachines "recovery" disks. These will
>restore all of the software that was originally on the
>machine, including the XP operating system, but at the
>cost of completely overwriting everything that is on the
>drive now (assuming anything is still there!). I wish
to
>avoid that if at all possible.
>
>Any advice?
>
>Thanks,
>Steve Smith
>
>.
>
Try borrow a XP CD from your friend and boot from the XP
CD to recovery console.
You might try this, though I doubt it will work,
Re-extract the files 'NTLDR' and 'ntdetect.com'
again, from the XP CD.
(CD Boot - Recovery Console Prompt)
copy F:\i386\NTLDR C:\
copy F:\i386\NTDETECT.COM C:\
Where F stand for your CD rom drive, substitute it with
the correct drive name.
If no avial, you may need to buy an XP CD and perform a
repair install of XP.
However, you may need a XP CD sooner or later if you want
to stay with XP; recovery CD is of no use.
Peter
>-----Original Message-----
>(I am sending this from my wife's computer, BTW. My
>computer is inaccesible, as detailed below).
>
>I have XP on an eMachine computer.
>
>Tonight I defragged my files. Then I used the Windows
>option to "clean" drive C. I believe that the "compress
>disk" option was also checked.
>
>At some point my open applications began performing
>erratically. Then I noticed that about half of the
>applications seemed to be missing or at least could not
be
>found.
>
>I checked the properties for drive C. Previously, it
>showed about 18 Gigs of space in use, and about 2 Gigs
>free. Now it showed approximately 10 Gigs in use and 10
>Gigs free.
>
>I figured maybe this had something to do with my having
>compressed the drive. Now though, I wonder if I
actually
>erased half of my files, including the system boot files.
>
>I shut down the computer, then turned it back on. I got
>the eMachines logo, then the message, "NTLDR missing,"
>and the advice to type ctrl-alt-del to restart. But
>typing ctrl-alt-del just gets me to the same message.
>
>Somehow (maybe by hitting keys when the eMachines logo
was
>still showing), I was able at one point to get to an A:
>prompt. From there I tried typing C: to see if it would
>take me to my hard drive. But it just gave me a message
>indicating that drive C: did not exist.
>
>I did not receive any XP disks, per se, with this
>computer. No emergency boot disks or anything. What I
>got was a set of eMachines "recovery" disks. These will
>restore all of the software that was originally on the
>machine, including the XP operating system, but at the
>cost of completely overwriting everything that is on the
>drive now (assuming anything is still there!). I wish
to
>avoid that if at all possible.
>
>Any advice?
>
>Thanks,
>Steve Smith
>
>.
>