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Make a NTLDR boot disk to get back into Windows.

The quick test to make sure your OS installation is still good is to create an MBR and

NTLDR on a floppy disk and check your partitions, this disk ill check many of the

partitions for a orking indos installation! "ere are the instructions to do this#

$! %et a &lank floppy'cd(r'us& )hate*er is on it ill &e erased+, and put it into a orking

computer!

! -f you ha*e a orking .indos machine donload my fi/# 0loppy fi/ntldr!e/e1 2D(R

fi/ntldriso!3ip1 4SB ntldrus&!3iponto a orking computer

).hat if - don5t ant to donload a file from a e&site - don5t trust6 +!

Do you remem&er if the &roken computers had the .indos installation in 7.indos76 -f

you can5t remem&er 8ust keep going ).hat if it as not named .indos &ut .-NNT like in

NT9 or :::6+ !

)-f your &ackup system is NT9 or .indos :::#.hat if my &ackup system is Mac ' Linu/

or another alt OS6+!

;! Make the ne &oot disk#

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Start &ack up the &roken computer ith the floppy'cd(r'us& inside it'plugged into it! Once

your computer gets past the B-OS screen your computer should try to access the &oot disk

and you should see a &lack screen ith hite letters ).hat if - don5t see this screen6+!that

says#

$ST TR T"-S seleccione esto primeroND TR T"-S essaye3 ceci en deu3ieme

;RD TR T"-S ahlen Sie diesen Third

9T" TR T"-S sele3ioni questo fourth

IT" TR T"-S selecione este fifth

JT" TR T"-S seleccione este se/to

KT" TR T"-S essaye3 ceci en septieme

GT" TR T"-S ahlen Sie dieses achte

FT" TR T"-S sele3ioni questo nono

$:T" TR T"-S selecione este decimo

)- thre in some Spanish ' 0rench ' %erman ' -talian ' ortuguese for international fla*or!+

This file is set up to automatically select the 7$ST TR T"-S7 choice after ;: seconds! Try it

first, if it as the rong selection, you ill likely get one of these four errors#

$! .indos could not start &ecause file 7.indos Root@Esystem;Ehal!dll as missing or

corrupt

! .indos could not start &ecause of a computer disk hardare configuration pro&lem!

2ould not read from the selected &oot disk! 2heck &oot path and disk hardare! lease check

the .indos documentation a&out hardare disk configuration and your hardare reference

manuals for additional information!

;! -'O >rror accessing &oot sector file multi):+disk):+fdisk):+EBOOTS>2T!DOS

9! -mmediate re&oot

-f you get the immediate re&oot or some other eird error, try pressing 0G at the 7$st Try

This7 selection screen, it ill gi*e you a prompt here you can select Safe Mode, and then

try the 7$st Try This7 option again! Safe Mode is a special 7minimal7 *ersion of .indos

that doesn5t load certain parts of the operating system that might ha*e caused the pro&lem!

One of the choices should e*entually &oot you &ack into .indos! ).hat if none of the

options orked6+ !

Use windows to fix the boot fies on the hard dri!e.

-f you got &ack into .indos, stop hate*er you are doing and &ackup your most important

information from this computer!

No that you are done &acking up the most important info, try to change &ack hate*er you

ere last doing and &oot normally, it that doesn5t ork, put the floppy &ack into the &roken

computer and dou&le click the fi/ntldr!&at file on the floppy dri*e, if it asks you to o*erritea file, 8ust type in y for yes )the file copies &oot!ini, ntldr, ntdetect!com from the floppy to the

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2#E dri*e and remo*es the read only attri&utes+! That process take a fe minutes, then remo*e

the floppy and re&oot!

-f you are using the cd or us& solution, copy the &oot!ini, ntldr, and ntdetect!com files to My

2omputer @ Local Disk 2#E @ and o*erite hate*er files might &e there, then right click

each file, choose properties, uncheck the Read Only attri&ute, and click O=!

-f you get &ack into .indos again, you can change that 7$st Try This7 menu &y going into

Start @ 2ontrol anel @ System @ ?d*anced ta& @ Startup and Reco*ery section, Settings

&utton @ System StartupA then change the 7Default Operating System#7 to the selection that

orked for you, and change the &o/ that says 7Time to display list of operating systems7 to

hoe*er many seconds you ant )usually $ second+! 2lick O= tice! ).hat if the &ootdisk

orked, &ut - can5t get into .indos ithout it6+ !

).hat if - ant to do further research6+ !

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