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Booting up problem

I recently had my internal HDD reformatted at FRY's because something corrupted my Windowx XP OS. I used Ghost to reload a backup of an earlier complete image and it took several hours but I think everything is back in there the problem is that when I start the machine it says - ; no bootable partition found. NTLDR is missing, press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart. I have tried this several times but get no result. What's next?
Thanks

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Phiwi Moyo

try booting off an XP cd and select repair to go in command prompt, the issue the following command: c:\fixboot, the logout and reboot.

nobus

Boot using the Windows XP installation disk, press R. Then type the following commands:
note : you can test after each command

FIXMBR
FIXBOOT
BOOTCFG /rebuild

cd\
copy E:\i386\NTLDR c:\
ATTRIB -arsh ntldr
copy e:\i386\NTDETECT.COM
ATTRIB -arsh ntdetect.com c:\

E: should be the location of your CDRom where you have the Windows install disk located.
and check if those files are in the root : NTLDR boot.ini ntdetect.com

Contents of the boot.ini file :
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

check this too for more info : http://tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm#What_if_none_of_the_options_worked?

camtz

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Thank you. Sorry I haven't had time to get back but this worked.