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dos help

  • 30-06-2006 6:46pm
    #1
    dmeehan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,457 ✭✭✭


    i have been given a very old computer and i cannot find what is on it.
    when it boots it stops at "NTDLR missing"

    i have created a dos bootdisk from www.bootdisk.com but all the dos prompt will allow me to access is the a:

    according to fdisk there is an active partition on the disk. how can i acess this? any help would be greatly appreciated, its been quite a while since i have had to deal with a dos prompt:D


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  • #2
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Try booting from the Windows XP cd and choose the repair install.


  • #3
    aFlabbyPanda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭aFlabbyPanda


    sounds like its an NTFS partition which means you wont see anything in DOS. Try putting the drive in another Win2k3 or XP machine. Or as Ruu says. do a repair or a new install without formating the drive.


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,572 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    to make a boot disk get a machine with a higher version of NT ( XP = NT 5.1 etc.) format a floppy drive and copy c:\ntldr , c:\ntdetect.com on to it.
    you will also need the boot.ini file from the sick PC
    a dos boot disk should see this - use ntfsdos from www.sysinternals.com if it's been NTFS formatted.

    if the boot disk works - happy days - if not then you are down the repair road and the older the os the less good the outlook


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