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hobbit709

(41,694 posts) Sat Mar 29, 2014, 08:36 AM Mar 2014

Good thing I have all the Windows install disks.

The infamous"NTLDR is missing or corrupt" on a machine someone brought in.
Older Dell with XP Home on it. Customer had tried to declutter the drive and deleted a bunch of files.

Got it up and running, cleaned out 3 Gb worth of junk in various TEMP folders and got rid of all the adware/spyware she had on it.

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Good thing I have all the Windows install disks. (Original Post) hobbit709 Mar 2014 OP

How did you accomplish this? Repair install? Recovery Console? Earth Bound Misfit Mar 2014 #1

Recovery console. hobbit709 Mar 2014 #2

Thanks for replying. Earth Bound Misfit Mar 2014 #3

Earth Bound Misfit

(3,554 posts)

1. How did you accomplish this? Repair install? Recovery Console?

Reply to hobbit709 (Original post)

Sat Mar 29, 2014, 10:09 AM

Mar 2014

I remember botching an XP install after deleting a Linux partition on a dual boot, got the "NTLDR missing" error. I was unable to repair the XP boot files & ended up re-installing... possibly because I deleted the partition with GParted? Somehow the XP file system got corrupted... (Details are sketchy/fuzzy...it was a couple years ago)

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)

2. Recovery console.

Reply to Earth Bound Misfit (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 29, 2014, 10:31 AM

Mar 2014

config /rebuild and fixboot didn't do it so had to copy ntldr from i386 on cd to c: drive.

It's pretty much a given that you have to reinstall Windows on a former dual boot setup.

Earth Bound Misfit

(3,554 posts)

3. Thanks for replying.

Reply to hobbit709 (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 31, 2014, 08:43 AM

Mar 2014

I've been successful 100% of the time deleting Linux partitions on Win 7 dual boots... XP?--Not so much.

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