windows NT 4 help!

[Jimmy Little]

hi chaps... happy new year and all!

i just got back from the 2 week xmas break at school and found one of the office NT workstations would not boot up..

the error msg is

missing NTLDR ... press any key to restart...

then the same thing happens again?

any ideas folks?

[Craig]

Same message as you get when there is no OS on the hard drive (We get it alot at work when silly pople dont know how to formatt their HDD's) If it definatly has NT on it, then it could be a problem with the MBR, try using a boot floppy i you have one

Cr4iG

[nichomach]

OK, first things first - you don't have a floppy in the drive do you? *Nick ducks for cover* You'll get that error if A: is the first boot device and contains a disk that was formatted from an NT workstation.

If not, then it's a knackered MBR. Run the NT setup on the workstation, choose repair, don't worry about the the ER disk, when it asks you what you want to inspect, uncheck everything except the boot sector/files/whatever (can't recall off the top of my head). It should repair the boot sector and away you go.

[Jimmy Little]

not sure what the prob was but all seems to be sorted now...

i shall keep an eye on this computer and maybe do a ghost from another one

cheers Jim