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NTLDR missing

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by dragergo, Aug 30, 2008.

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    Sorry for the link,
    Breafly the problem is the following:

    My system:

    laptop is a dell vostro shipped with vista one year ago I changed to XP myself
    HD 160GB
    the information of the partitions I got from Acronis True Image home rescue media

    Xp C: part2 were my XP is

    Munka F: part3

    Fat 16 part1

    Mediadirect part4 dell program, I never use it, dosent even work


    Half year ago I made an image with Acronis True Image home of my OS partition(C)
    Now I had some problems, and decided to step back to the previous os state
    chose to recover entire C: partition, reboot -NTLDR missing
    then chose to recover MBR, reboot still NTLDR missing

    I tried to edit the boot.ini

    originally it was:
    [boot loader]
    timeout=0
    default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
    [operating systems]
    multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Embedded" /fastdetect /KERNEL=NTOSBOOT.EXE /maxmem=768

    changed it to:
    [boot loader]
    timeout=30
    default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
    [operating systems]
    multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn


    I have copied the ntdetect.com, ntldr files to c: (XP)

    now the following message came up on booting
    "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
    <Windows root>\system32\hal.dll.
    Please re-install a copy of the above file."

    I have tried this:
    enter the Recovery Console again, choose the installation, and type the password
    type:
    expand D:\i386\hal.dl_ c:\System32\hal.dll and press Enter
    *make sure to replace &#8220;D&#8221; with your CD and/or DVD drive&#8217;s letter that contains the XP CD

    it didnt let me do so, it said I had no rights

    on which partition should my ntldr, boot.ini be, and how to fix hal.dll problem!

    Please help!
     
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