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From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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Subject: Re: cannot see Windows after installing FreeBSD
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On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 07:17 am, Saccheen Martin wrote:
> Hi,
> I still cannot boot Windows so I set the BIOS to boot
> from the slave hard disk that has Windows first and it
> gave me the following error:
>
> NTLDR is missing
> press ATL-CTRL-DEL to restart
>

It is my understanding that on installation windows by default
places NTLDR is the first file system which is 
understood by the MS software. So if the 4.3G had some MS 
file system when you installed XP on the 80G drive then 
the chances are that NTLDR was placed on the 4.3G drive and 
is now overwritten by FreeBSD.

I would expect that a MS expert might be able to replace the 
NTLDR file and reconstruct the data file that goes with it;
but this is outside my ken.

Malcolm