It may be worth trying the Wizard as you can select to search for just NTFS partitions. Then work your way through all the other search criteria....
Hi Christer, well my old brain just hasn’t been able to drop this PE environment thing in the last two days and I got a few ideas so had to test...
I think I downloaded them myself and they probably came unhidden. Just ticking the hide box in each file should hide them again. Are you saying...
Hi Mark. If you have created a new partition that has the same starting position on the hard drive as the one you want to recover, then you may be...
Cheers Christer, I’d love to get to the bottom of this as well and I’d certainly enjoy a chat with Dan, but unfortunately I’ve got to stop...
Wow, I’m so glad there Terry, good work mate. To avoid the problems you just had then it is necessary to install Win 2k first and then XP....
Well it’s not possible to remove the ‘default’ line from the boot.ini file. There must be something else up with it. Here, try downloading and...
Oh I see, you’re saying you now have three options on the boot menu. Windows XP Windows 2000 Default. Is that correct? Is it just the...
So you are saying you can’t boot XP now, it just reboots? Does 2000 boot ok? You obviously saved the new notepad as boot.ini and not boot.txt –...
Ok, this is what your boot.ini file needs to look like. You can either change your one manually to the same as this, but you will need to be...
Yeah, that’s it. I just need to know a few things. Does your XP install have Service Pace 2 installed? Which OS do you want to be the default...
Ah, I’m glad of that, I’ve been racking my brains trying to figure out what went wrong. Ok, now I need to see your boot.ini file. You’ll find it...
Are you still getting the boot menu and have you tried various options?
Sorry Terry, just had some visitors. Yeah you will find those files right there on the C: drive and not inside any other folder. Those are the...
Woah, slow down and don’t panic. If you are prepared to do a full reinstall then you have nothing to loose in attempting to replace those two...
Terry, the bootcfg command or indeed any command I know of in the recovery console will not replace the two files you need to. All bootcfg will do...
Terry, you are using the bootcfg /rebuild option?
Sorry Terry, looks like you are right. You said you had two Windows installs found, so type A for all and then you will get the load options.
The load identifier is just the name you want to appear on the boot menu for the OS. So type XP Pro and Win2000 respectively – or something...
Sorry Terry but I don’t believe it will work from a CD. Pete, does the bootcfg command replace the ntldr and Ntdetect.com files?
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