Greetings Don & list--
I just had occasion to rescue a SONY Vaio computer in just this situation.
As I had created the XP boot floppy set, I was able to copy ntldr from another
floppy to the root of the ailing drive. On restart, chkdsk ran and the XP Home computer started up as it always had. So many computers from larger producers
(Dell, Gateway, Compaq, SONY, HP, etc.) do not include recovery
disks (in favor of a recovery partition), and it's not clear to me how one would
go about creating the boot floppies. Is it done from the MS backup utility, like
in Windows 2000, or is it done differently? [Please pardon my ignorance, as
I've built my own XP computers and have used the retail install CD both to access
the Recovery Console and to create boot floppies.]
Thanks for the info.
Paul A. Shippert
Library Media Specialist
Margaret Brent Middle School
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> Laurel wrote:
>
> >I tried to boot up my PC after 3 months of having it off while I was out
> >of town. I now get this message:
> >
> >"Verifying DMI pool date .....
> >NTLDR is missing
> >Press any key to restart">>
>
>
> Try this:
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318728 (for W2000, but the procedure is
> much the same for XP).
>
> This usually happens when either of the files Ntldr or NTdetect.com is
> missing or damaged. You may get away with simply copying the file from an
> XP emergency boot floppy if you have one, or from another XP
> computer. These files reside in the root system drive--usually C:. Less
> likely is a damaged Boot.ini file---in the same location. Try copying only
> the first two first,---only if that is unsuccessful should you try a copy
> of Boot.ini.
>
> If that doesn't work, you'll need to go to the Recovery Console on your XP
> CD. You can copy the files from there by following the Ms instructions in
> the above article.
>
> Don Penlington
>
>
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