Right, I hate doing this, I work in IT for a career but sometimes I have to swallow my pride and ask!
Windows XP Pro with SP3, powered laptop on today and it came up saying:
"No bootable devices"
So I tried the ususal stuff from recovery console (fixmbr/bootcfg/fixboot)
Now, bootcfg /rebuild works, and rebuilds the boot.ini file.
fixmbr tells me everytime I run it I have a non standard MBR, so I say yes to rebuild.
Fixboot tells me everytime that i've specified an invalid boot drive.
Now, this is where things get weird. I've downloaded an ISO image called fixntldr, which is basically boot.ini, ntldr and a couple of other files on a CD. If I boot from this CD everything works and i'm into my Windows install.
So followed the instructions and re-did boot.ini, copied ntldr and ntdetect.com from my Windows CD into the root of C:, reboot and....same problem!
Any advice?
Windows XP Pro with SP3, powered laptop on today and it came up saying:
"No bootable devices"
So I tried the ususal stuff from recovery console (fixmbr/bootcfg/fixboot)
Now, bootcfg /rebuild works, and rebuilds the boot.ini file.
fixmbr tells me everytime I run it I have a non standard MBR, so I say yes to rebuild.
Fixboot tells me everytime that i've specified an invalid boot drive.
Now, this is where things get weird. I've downloaded an ISO image called fixntldr, which is basically boot.ini, ntldr and a couple of other files on a CD. If I boot from this CD everything works and i'm into my Windows install.
So followed the instructions and re-did boot.ini, copied ntldr and ntdetect.com from my Windows CD into the root of C:, reboot and....same problem!
Any advice?