Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:10:41 -0600 From: Vikram Kulkarni <vkulkarn@brownforces.org> To: Andrew Boothman <A.J.Boothman@sms.ed.ac.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "NTLDR missing" after 5-RELEASE install Message-ID: <20030225171041.GN4470@padu.brownforces.org> In-Reply-To: <1046192310.3e5ba0b6aa039@sms.ed.ac.uk> References: <9F67035A-48C9-11D7-8C19-0030656DD690@foolishgames.com> <1046192310.3e5ba0b6aa039@sms.ed.ac.uk>
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On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 04:58:30PM +0000, Andrew Boothman wrote: > > Thanks for replying! > > I can't understand how the 5.x boot manager has managed to break my > windows boot, i've never had any trouble under 3.x or 4.x, both of > which played with windows perfectly nicely. > > I think i've tried all of the various repair options on the Win2k CD, > including getting it to do a fresh installation into a different > folder (c:\tempwin), but even that failed with the "NTLDR missing" > message! However you no longer get the booteasy (F1.... F2) menu > anymore, so Windows must have rewritten something. It still doesn't > explain why Win2k still won't boot. > > I'm running out of ideas and I *really* don't want to have to reformat > my windows drive! I had a similar problem recently, and traced it back to this: The NT Boot Loader doesn't use a partition ID when trying to boot Windows, it keeps track of the partitions order on the disk (ie, 'Windows is on the third partition')... When I installed FreeBSD, I combined two partitions into one, which changed my Windows partition to the second partition instead of the third... this screwed up Windows. I fixed this by using the 'fixboot' command in the Windows Recovery Console... For more info on the Windows Recovery Console: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;229716 Hope that helps... :-\ -Vik -- vikram vinayak kulkarni God created Arrakis to train the faithful. vkulkarn@uiuc.edu -_The Wisdom of Muad'Dib_ by vkulkarn@brownforces.org Princess Irulan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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