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Sounds like everyone or users has been given deny access to your drive. Did you
carnage any ntfs permissions as of late? An option may be to do a parallel install to
examine and change ntfs permissions on that install to the built in groups to allow
copy access, or deny ntfs permissions may be the problem. --- Steve
"algarveroot" <algarveroot.1a6sc4@mail.mcse.ms> wrote in message
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> I have the same problem with W2KPro....NTLDR is Missing, Alt+Ctrl+Del to
> restart (why, if NTLDR is missing, it won't boot now or again.....?)
>
> I've tried the repair console, "Can't copy NTLDR, ARCSETUP.exe,
> ARCLDR.exe", so no automatic fix allowed.
>
> Then tried to copy the three files manually - "Access Denied"....
>
> Tried attrib -s -h -r (and -shr) ntldr/boot.ini/arcsetup.exe/arcldr.exe
> - file not found or words to that effect......however "attrib ntldr"
> returns SHR (i.e. file found).....REN is obviously denied too....
>
> So, it appears that write-access is being denied to the c: drive both
> for manual and automatic-repair fixing.....
>
> I had created a recovery disk and boot disks from the machine - the
> boot "can't load biosinfo.inf" and the recovery disk obviously can't be
> copied to the hdd.
>
> Tried to re-install to c:\newwin - didn't install but claimed to have
> effected repairs......but not enough of them, apparently!
>
> In short, I can 'see' the files at the 'manual repair' level of the
> installation cd but cannot effect any sort of repair because access to
> the hdd is denied - any ideas PLEASE?
>
> Dusty Harper {MS} wrote:
> > *This can be caused by several issues:
> >
> > 1) the boot.ini is misconfigured to boot off an invalid location
> > 2) Problem with the hard drive / or drive connections
> > 3) the file is actually missing
> >
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> > Dusty Harper
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> > <josinvill@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:1e06c01c454cd$650e95a0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> > > what is the problem when i boot up my pc, there is a
> > > message "NTLDR is missing"?
> > >
> > > joseph *
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> algarveroot
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