shanaldson

See if the fixes in this thread can help.

Bev.


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Thank you for the link but I had no luck.....The first two options don't pertain to me because I originally had XP and reinstalled with XP. The OS took up 11G's of my hard drive...normal??? As for the third option, I tried many different commands and I keep getting "The path or file specified is not valid." I followed the copy command from this link, a different way with a Dell rep and the specified way the help suggests on the recovery console???? C:\>copy x:\i386\ntldr [I have left this blank and specified paths to my hard drive but I keep getting that it's not valid....what should I type here for the destination???] I am working with a different XP disc that didn't come with my computer....problem???? Ordered copies from Dell, should get soon....

shanaldson

Did you add the assigned drive letter of the CD/ROM you are using, to the C:\>copy x:\i386\ntldr command?

If this does not work, try a repair reinstall of XP.

What is the computer model?

Bev.


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3. Type bootcfg. 

 4. This should fix any boot.ini errors causing setup not to see the  XP OS
      install. 

 ......when I type this, it just gives me the proper commands for my computer.....Dell Inspiron 1100, old school from '03 which I put a 120G hard drive in....(up from a 20G)????????????????????????????????????????

I was able to copy these files from my disc (D) to my hard drive 

copy D:\i386\ntldr C:\
copy D:\i386\ntdetect.com C:\

These files I couldn't type the proper command???????

(two other files needed - just in case)

1. Type: attrib -h -r -s C:\boot.ini del C:\boot.ini

2. Type: BootCfg /Rebuild....this one gives me an error message: Failed to sucessfully scan disks for Windows installations. This error may be caused by a corrupt file system, which would prevent Bootcfg from successfully scanning. Use chkdsk to detect any disk errors. I checked disk and in good condition...chkdsk /p to completely check..... say's the volume contains one or more unrecoverable problems.....doesn't even run disk, just gives me reply immediately. Should be fine because I just got it from Dell???

 

Lastly, I run bootcfg /list to list all entries and it tells me that there are currently no boot entries available to display.

 

Repair reinstall has never come up as an option with everything I have tried???? I get C:Partition1 [FAT]  152617MB <3MB free>    and another    Unpartitioned space    8MB     justs asks me if I want set up XP, create or delete the partition