OT - NTLDR has me down

[John Esak]

I have gotten that error about three times in my life. It has always been on
XP... and the cause has always been a floppy in the floppy drive... and the
system set to boot from floppy first.
I hope you didn't bring a machine with a floppy in the drive to your fixit
place. Because, if you did, they screwed you good. Good luck.
John

  -----Original Message-----
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[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of
Fpmckinney at cs.com
  Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 6:23 PM
  To: filepro-list at seaslug.org
  Subject: OT - NTLDR has me down


  Running SCO 5.0.5
  HP Vectra server "designed for Windows NT /Windows 98"
  Backupedge with Recover Edge 2 Boot and Filesystem diskettes"

  This is off-topic but I suspect that there more practical UNIX wizards
here
  than any other place that I could turn. In the shutting down and rebooting
  my system, I got an error message "NTLDR Missing, Press any key
  to restart."  Of course, pressing any key does nothing other than to
repeat
  the message. I have had this error on PC's that I use as terminals. They
  were fixed with a 3-4 stay at a shop. But, we can't afford to be out of
  the filepro or UNIX business that long, even if we could find a shop that
isn't
  spooked by UNIX.
  I have a current  (last night) full system tape backup and Recover EDGE 2
  diskettes, but I suspect that won't cure my NTLDR woes, or will they?
  Any advice or help will be appreciated.

  Frank A. McKinney
  St. Petersburg, Fla.
  fpmckinney at cs.com
  (727) 560-8777

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