NTFS bootdisk question

I need to mak a bootdisk( i think)

anyway I copy the files to a floppy
3 times on three differant discs
I pull the disks out and put them in to see if the transfer took
and one disk I get a disk not formtted
and the other two are just blank

maybe my disks are just currupt or something
yes my hidden files are showing

do I just need to keep doing it one disk at a time till they show or are they not going to

 

I think thats what I need to do
in law gets
"NTLDR is Missing press ctrl>alt> del to continue"

 

she's got the same xp system I do. . .
just cant get any friggn disk to formatt for sht

i can sve the files to disk
close the disk
open it and they are there
but if I take it out and put it back in
they are gone

someone tell me I am ok or just a dumb ass
just something
I only have a 30 min window to work with

 

Have you had a look at this:
http://www.ntfs.com/boot-disk.htm
?

 

What are you going to use the bootdisk for ?

 

no. . ddn't see that
but i did go here
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35319

and I made five of them( at least one had to work, right)
every one I tried I got the non system disk error thing'
disc's not formatting

then I made a dos formattteed one
insert the disk reset and got a
I/O error

I willl do that thogh. . .hope it works

I will probably need to buy new flopy's
thats probabl the prob. . .i hope

tanks

 

my father inlaw is a dumbass
he ran easycleaner and looked for duplicate files
and erased them, all
and he's blaming it on his 15 yo son

so when he turns on his computer he gets

 

so what do I do with the .iso
sve the zip to a cd?
extract it to th hhd then save it to disk?

 

No, the ISO image you need to load into a CD burning program and burn it. So don't just copy the file across to the CD and burn it.

When i say load it in, i mean go to file, open, and click on the files. Most good CD authoring programs will support burning image files.

 

ok. .right now the .iso is in a zip file in my temp
so from there I open wmp?
and burn the .iso itself from the zip
or do i need to extract it first
and then burn it?

 

Errm, no.

WMP won't let you burn ISO files.
EasyISO is an easy way to burn ISO images quickly. You need to extract the ISO file from the zip file, then use that utility to burn that image to a CD

 

Instead of burning a boot-cd, why not just use the WinXP install cd as it is bootable ? (Have recovery console)

 

ok, its burnt, tanks

so
when I go to inlaws
put in floppy
and cd
restart the computer
and it should just work?

 

dont have one

 

Umm, no, but you can replace the file you need for startup.

 

then how?
how can I repplace the file
if the pc wont even boot to dos?
the only thing I get is that blahblah is missing
restart and all black

 

Thats what that disc is for. It will let you gain access to the hard drive (which you can't do with a normal DOS bootdisk).

Its XP that is broken, not the entire computer, so you should be able to boot from those disks.

You will need to find a backup of NTLDR to replace it with, which you should have on a CD.

 

there is not one on cd avail
neither of us have a cd

this is also why I looked here
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35319

 

If you can somehow get a copy of NTLDR onto a drive thats accessable to the command prompt, then you can copy across using that. Personally, I'd put the file onto a CD, perhaps a waste of a CD but it would work, and copy from there to the directory required, to replace the old one.

 

so i could just use an old data disk thats got about ten songs on it
and copy the ntdlr onto it
and not waste a new cd?

 

Sure, that should work fine

 

thanks
I wont be able to do anything till about 9 or so
(for me)
then I cantlet ya know how it went
again, thanks goldfish

 

ok, this is what happend

I ran the cd that had the demo thing on it
couldnt find the missing file

took me forever to get a command lne
and when I did
i couldnt replace the ntldr
I could put it anywhere
but
c:\
or c:\windows\system32

where the hell am I supposed to put it then?

I could only acsess the cd rom drive
I need a step by step
sorry

 

I mean when windows boots
wich ntldr does it use
which location?
when I put the floppy in
and reboot I get

free dos

and can do nothing
how can I get to the c drive from dos?
I can only acess the cd rom drive
when i do get into dos

so I type
copy ntldr c:\
then i am asked if I want to replace the existing one
but if it was there I wouldnt get the

ntldr missing in the first place



and none of my floppy will format
(yes i got new ones)

 

I have gone through the threads many, many times
on missing ntldr
I cannot access the recovery

hell I dunno

im goin to bed
but if anyone could add this "error" to the FAQ
with every possible problem and outcome
I will give someone a really big hug
hell if my wife will let me i will donate to MG


Im gonna go to bed
its friggn 5;30 ish for me and I have been up all night
and need to figure something out in the morn

 

Okay.

It seems I confused myself in the direction of this thread.

First of all, have a look at this :
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320397

Adryn posted it in another thread in hardware

Also, how to create a boot disk for an NTFS/FAT partition
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/119467

 

thanks fishy, but I have been there

I think the reason I am having trouble is because of the attributes
I won't be able to do anything with it today
I'll tinker with it later

ps
get well soon

 

well. . everything is lost
I couldnt do anything for them

my sister inlaws ex does this stuff for a living and he took it home
and said that apparantly someone "hacked" it and erased everything

I still think it was my father inlaws dumbass. . . .

there was nothing to recover
I couldnt access the c drive because it was cleand out

now i dont feel so bad
(and it was nothing I did)