I know that this is not a windows help forum, but you all are helpful for everything else, so I thought I would give it a try.
I have my primary hard drive with windows on it. I was doing some editing, it locked up. I shut it down manually and reloaded. I got the ntldr missing message and since I have had this before, I jiggled some wires and made sure the connections were good as this has worked before, but it did not work this time. I opened up the repair console of XP Pro via CD and tried copying the ntldr file but to no avail. I then chose fixboot and fixmbr but to no avail. I then tried to rebuild the boot record. Once I restarted, it recognized the ntldr file but gave me this message after it showed 4 options for operating systems
"Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Please check the Windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information."
I tried to go back into the repair console and fix the boot master record, but now it does not even find the disk as I searched with chkdsk and it says that it has irrecoverable damage. I know that there is a way to fix the boot record, I just need to know how to get there to do it. I can type the drive letter and it allows it to come but you cannot use the command prompt to change anything about it as it says that it is inaccessable.
Any help would be much appreciated as I do not want to reinstall and I have a project due this coming Monday.
Thanks for anything!
I have my primary hard drive with windows on it. I was doing some editing, it locked up. I shut it down manually and reloaded. I got the ntldr missing message and since I have had this before, I jiggled some wires and made sure the connections were good as this has worked before, but it did not work this time. I opened up the repair console of XP Pro via CD and tried copying the ntldr file but to no avail. I then chose fixboot and fixmbr but to no avail. I then tried to rebuild the boot record. Once I restarted, it recognized the ntldr file but gave me this message after it showed 4 options for operating systems
"Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Please check the Windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information."
I tried to go back into the repair console and fix the boot master record, but now it does not even find the disk as I searched with chkdsk and it says that it has irrecoverable damage. I know that there is a way to fix the boot record, I just need to know how to get there to do it. I can type the drive letter and it allows it to come but you cannot use the command prompt to change anything about it as it says that it is inaccessable.
Any help would be much appreciated as I do not want to reinstall and I have a project due this coming Monday.
Thanks for anything!