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ntldr should be in the root of the boot drive.

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Yes, I think it is in the root of the bootdrive,because it will boot in my other computer. but it won`t boot in the compaq computer. I`m wondering if the compaq bios needs to be updated or maybe it will only work with XP (NTFS) it now has XP fat32.

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Check your computer's BIOS settings and make sure they are correct. It is possible they got changed and you are no longer booting from the primary hard drive in question. Also make sure it is not starting to fail and is partitioned properly and the correct partition is designated as active. You can run the Scan Disk utility to check the disk.

Also, on the Compaq logo screen, there is usually a quick or fast boot BIOS option that bypasses the splash screen. Good luck.

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Try booting from the installation CD and answer YES to "do you want to install" . Then it come to ask about install or repair console for the second time, answer YES for repair console. At this console type FIXBOOT (or was it REPAIRBOOT) and after it's done "exit" and reboot. This how I managed to repair same error message on my computer.

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Did it ever work with XP?

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Did you recently add or delete any partitions on this disk?

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I thought so, from one of your other posts. For some reason, that PC doesn't like XP. I think some major PC makers have some sort of ID coded in the firmware to match it to the OS that they want to be used. This may be the issue here.

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This is just a wild guess, but it's easy.

Put the disk in the other computer and look in this disk's root directory. Find the file named "boot.ini". It may be write protected, so you will have to make it writeable.

Using Notepad, edit boot.ini. Yours should look something like this

Note that my Newsreader has wrapped the last line into 2 lines.

Copy that last line and paste it into boot.ini 3 more times below itself.

Now edit each of those four lines as follows:

Change "partition(1)" to

partition(1) partition(2) partition(3) partition(4)

In each of those 4 lines.

Then change XP Professional" to:

XP Professional 1" XP Professional 2" XP Professional 3" XP Professional 4"

Your last line will end up looking like this (but not wrapped):

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows XP Professional 4" /fastdetect

What this does, is give you 4 choices of which partition to boot.

Now put this disk back in your original computer. When the boot process gets to the hard drive you should get 4 choices displayed, and you have 10 seconds to choose one or the default (partition 1) will boot. Use the arrow key to choose a different choice. Repeat this test until you find a choice that works, or have exhausted all the choices.

If you're lucky, you will find that one of these choices works. If so, just change the partition # in the default line to equal the number that worked.

This may be fruitless, but it MIGHT work. It can get you around a problem if you have more than one partition on that disk, even if you don't think you do.

----------------------------------------------- Jim Adney snipped-for-privacy@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711 USA

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What you can try doing to fix the NT boot loader is to run the setup again, but run the repair part of the setup program. once there run the help command becuase there is a command just for repairing the boot loader . Try that I have had alot of good luck with fixing NTLDR errors.

Good Luck