From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 25 9:10:50 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78DC037B401 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:10:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from padu.brownforces.org (padu.brownforces.org [216.43.25.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9461943FBD for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:10:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vkulkarn@brownforces.org) Received: by padu.brownforces.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 6304610031; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:10:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:10:41 -0600 From: Vikram Kulkarni To: Andrew Boothman Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "NTLDR missing" after 5-RELEASE install Message-ID: <20030225171041.GN4470@padu.brownforces.org> Reply-To: Vikram Kulkarni References: <9F67035A-48C9-11D7-8C19-0030656DD690@foolishgames.com> <1046192310.3e5ba0b6aa039@sms.ed.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1046192310.3e5ba0b6aa039@sms.ed.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Copyright: Copyright Vikram Kulkarni All rights reserved X-No-Archive: Yes X-Choosen-Adhesive: Duct Tape Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 04:58:30PM +0000, Andrew Boothman wrote: > > Thanks for replying! > > I can't understand how the 5.x boot manager has managed to break my > windows boot, i've never had any trouble under 3.x or 4.x, both of > which played with windows perfectly nicely. > > I think i've tried all of the various repair options on the Win2k CD, > including getting it to do a fresh installation into a different > folder (c:\tempwin), but even that failed with the "NTLDR missing" > message! However you no longer get the booteasy (F1.... F2) menu > anymore, so Windows must have rewritten something. It still doesn't > explain why Win2k still won't boot. > > I'm running out of ideas and I *really* don't want to have to reformat > my windows drive! I had a similar problem recently, and traced it back to this: The NT Boot Loader doesn't use a partition ID when trying to boot Windows, it keeps track of the partitions order on the disk (ie, 'Windows is on the third partition')... When I installed FreeBSD, I combined two partitions into one, which changed my Windows partition to the second partition instead of the third... this screwed up Windows. I fixed this by using the 'fixboot' command in the Windows Recovery Console... For more info on the Windows Recovery Console: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;229716 Hope that helps... :-\ -Vik -- vikram vinayak kulkarni God created Arrakis to train the faithful. vkulkarn@uiuc.edu -_The Wisdom of Muad'Dib_ by vkulkarn@brownforces.org Princess Irulan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message