Got the nickers of my spare HD twisted

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Got the nickers of my spare HD twisted

Postby nichos » Thu Sep 09, 2010 4:18 am

After trying to repair the spare W.Digidal HD it will now NOT Boot on its own, but boots with a boot floppy program called "fixntldr.exe" found here:-
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Re: Got the nickers of my spare HD twisted

Postby Groundbound1 » Thu Sep 09, 2010 9:21 am

I know this isn't the kind of reply your looking for, but at this point, it might be easier to format and reinstall, than to try to fix it.
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Re: Got the nickers of my spare HD twisted

Postby nichos » Thu Sep 09, 2010 2:06 pm

Thank you,

perhaps will not make any difference but just in case, I obmitted to show this:-

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Postby nichos » Fri Sep 10, 2010 4:31 pm

Hoorrayyyy, done it. Thanx to all for trying.

Managed to get in command mode using BARTE CD & applied these two:-

copy K:\i386\ntldr C:\                     (where K is the CDD letter)
copy K:\i386\ntdetect.com C:\

when I was directed to :- http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
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Re: Got the nickers of my spare HD twisted

Postby BrandonF » Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:52 pm

nichos, images need to be uploaded here in the future. This helps users with slow internet.  ;)
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