NTLDR missing?

[kkfico]

Hi,

I am having this "NTLDR missing" when i start my Laptop

I have XP home edition on my laptop installed by manufacturer.

There were 2 drives C and D. both were NTFS.

XP home was on drive C

I installed windows 2000 on drive D.

After installation i was getting this error NTLDR missing.

I could now see 3 drives C D E on my laptop when i start the laptop with my win 2000 bootable disk.

In drive D i could see my XP Home files and
In drive E i could see win 2000 files.

Drive C has new files ( dont know what they are) this drive is around 7 GB. D and E are around 33 GB respectively.

Drives D and E are now NTFS and Drive is FAT. I really do not know how this new drive was created.

My laptop manufacturer has not provided me with any recovery disk nor OS CD. The manufacturer is sony VAIO.

Unfortunately i too did not make a recovery disk.

I have important data in my xp home OS.

Could someone please help to fix the problem.

Cheers

 

[Rik]

Do you get a dos prompt with the bootable disk?

 

[kkfico]

yes when i start the laptop using my win 2000 bootable disk i get the dos prompt. I find 3 drives C D E.

D and E are NTFS
C is FAT

Previously i had only C and D which were NTFS.

One of my friend tried a few things FIXBOOT was one.

 

[howard_hopkinso]

Hello and welcome to Techspot.

Take a look at this thread HERE, it may help.

Regards Howard :wave: :wave:

 

[Rik]

Try typing "sys c:" without the speachmarks!!!

 

[Darth_Terra1]

Your problem is when you installed 2000 you installed an older OS which then had overwritten the newer ntldr and Ntdetect files which XP installs, you will need to replace the ntldr and Ntdetect files with the Xp versions then everthing will work ok.

 

[kkfico]

Previously there were 2 drives C and D. XP home was in drive C.

I tried executing few things at command prompt kindly have a look.

Command: MAP

? 0MB \device\harddisk0\partition0
C: FAT16 7154MB \device\harddisk0\partition1
E: NTFS 33385MB \device\harddisk0\partition2
? 35778MB \device\harddisk0\partition0
D: NTFS 35778MB \device\harddisk0\partition3
f:


command: systemroot

D:\winnt>


Command: CHKDSK

C: The volume serial number is 0000-0000
d:\winnt The voulme serial number is 2caf-8d61
e:windows The volume serial number is 54a5-8ef0


CHKDSK /p

e:windows chkdsk found one or more errors on the volume
d:winnt chkdsk found one or more errors on the volume


One of my friend executed Fixboot at the command prompt few days back.
I am wondering how FAT16 was created

 

[kkfico]

Can someone has any idea as to how c: drive with FAT 16 was created.

Shall i delete this partation?