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Emergency repair disk failure
My Dimension 8200 runs Windows 2000 Professional SP4. Using Backup, I create an emergency Windows repair disk, then attempt a boot from the floppy. Error message: "NTLDR is missing". I copy NTLDR to the floppy from C:\WINNT\ServicePackFiles\i386 (the only copy found on the machine) and retry the boot from floppy. Three lines of error message appear:
Invalid BOOT.INI file
Booting from C:\winnt\
NTDETECT failed
How can I create a repair disk that works?
Invalid BOOT.INI file
Booting from C:\winnt\
NTDETECT failed
How can I create a repair disk that works?
firstclermont
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Posted December 12th, 2003 18:00
The ERD is not supposed a bootable disk, by default. As far as I know, you have to manually create a Win2k boot disk depending on what you want to be able to do, and I don't think it is posible for both a ERD and boot disk to coexist on the same 1.44mb floppy. Search MS's knowledgebase for info on creating a W2k boot disk.
firstclermont
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Posted December 12th, 2003 18:00
In any case, your D8200 can boot from the CD, where you can do repairs, etc.