Please Help!!!! Need Expert!!!!

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Have you got a Bootable AntiVirus disk?
Some viruses will cause that behavior.

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"Bradley519" <Bradley519@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EF534E88-DE33-4161-8FAD-D65B305AB1CC@microsoft.com...
> OK heres the deal my girlfriends laptop will not startup. it gets to the
> screen where you can choose where to boot from and then in the upper left
> corner "ntdetect failed" appears for a split second and the whole process
> starts over again. yes i know there is an easy way to solve this... just
> restore use the windows xp restore disc hahaha way too easy. SHE LOST
> IT!!!
> ok so its still the original OS that came on her laptop and i just cannot
> figure out a way to restore this one file thats missing. i know there are
> experts out there that can help. Please get her off my computer!!! i beg
> u!!!

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Bradley519 wrote:

> OK heres the deal my girlfriends laptop will not startup. it gets to the
> screen where you can choose where to boot from and then in the upper left
> corner "ntdetect failed" appears for a split second and the whole process
> starts over again. yes i know there is an easy way to solve this... just
> restore use the windows xp restore disc hahaha way too easy. SHE LOST IT!!!
> ok so its still the original OS that came on her laptop and i just cannot
> figure out a way to restore this one file thats missing. i know there are
> experts out there that can help. Please get her off my computer!!! i beg u!!!

Contact the laptop vender to get a replacement disk.

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Here you go


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q242112/

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"Bradley519" <Bradley519@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:EF534E88-DE33-4161-8FAD-D65B305AB1CC@microsoft.com...
> OK heres the deal my girlfriends laptop will not startup. it gets to the
> screen where you can choose where to boot from and then in the upper left
> corner "ntdetect failed" appears for a split second and the whole process
> starts over again. yes i know there is an easy way to solve this... just
> restore use the windows xp restore disc hahaha way too easy. SHE LOST IT!!!
> ok so its still the original OS that came on her laptop and i just cannot
> figure out a way to restore this one file thats missing. i know there are
> experts out there that can help. Please get her off my computer!!! i beg u!!!