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LAPTOP WILL NT START

Started by MAINT , Apr 29 2004 04:14 PM

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Posted 29 April 2004 - 04:14 PM

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I have a friend whos laptop will not start. It gives a massage of missing or corrupt system32\drivers\Ntfs.sys. Is there a repair cd out to fix this. <_<
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Posted 29 April 2004 - 08:02 PM

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Welcome MAINT <_<

Try a repair installation:
http://www.geekstogo...p?showtopic=138
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Posted 30 April 2004 - 07:34 AM

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Thank you. Read the post you sugjested looks like what he needs to do. but neither one of us has a boot cd for windows xp. I found a coulpe of web site that tell how to made one, but i am not smart enough to do it. is there some place i can get one. <_<
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Posted 30 April 2004 - 08:38 AM

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Try www.bootdisk.com
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Posted 30 April 2004 - 09:27 AM

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Actually, a WindowsXP setup CD is bootable. Likely your BIOS just isn't configured to boot from a CD. Look to the bottom of the reapir installation guide and there's instructions on changing your boot options.
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