Hi to everybody
I have a computer I am fixing for my friend and it has windows xp home sp2 with 3 users, and i had to format it for him because it had problems, i installed another user with my name and deleted all the users keeping the files, as i was deleting the last one an error message showed up with “cannot delete images as it is a windows folder”, something like that and i found that the images folder was missing in the deleted user’s folder on the desktop and in it’s original location, i did a system restore and got all the users back, but then i did something really stupid, i booted with a ubuntu live cd to copy the data on my 500 gb external disk without risk of getting infected by viruses, and i started deleting a few system files on the c:\ directory so that it was easyer to sort out what i needed (i didn’t delete the folders, just a few files on the root directory, don’t remember which, and when i went to the user folder i didn’t find the documents folder, even though i had just seen them on windows and they were there (documents and settings\the user\documents) so i tried to boot from windows again but i got the ntldr missing error, i tried to fix mbr, boot record and all the other tips i found online but i can’t boot it, i tried to do a recovery installation after fixing the mbr(setup couldn’t find the broken Windows xp) but it stops at 35 minutes installing drivers, i tried to see the setupapi log and it stopped on input.inf yesterday and on volume.inf today(a dozen of lines ahead), even putting diskinternals when i installed windows on the other empty partition but there were a whole bunch of lost files but no documents folder in all the user folders (desktop though was present) and now i don’t know what else to do(i tried a bartPE cd but bios said it couldn’t boot)
by the way i unplugged all devices exept USB mouse and keyboard (don’t have PS/2 ports) and i tried disactivating all options in the bios and it didn’t work so i restored system defaults
my hardware configuration is
DELL dimension E520
Intel core 2 duo
windows xp home edition (vista capable)
floppy drive
dvd rewrite
1gb ram
160 hdd
I need urgent help please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks for everybody
p.s. I’m italian so excuse me for my english
i passed the ntldr problem, now i'm stuck in the recovery installation!!!!!!
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2 responses so far ↓
1 ? // Aug 27, 2008
I’m not sure about all the other stuff but this may help you on your way. I messed up something on my mom’s XP Home Ed. and NTLDR was missing. This isn’t pretty @ boot-up time, but it should fix that problem. Just go down and try each option one at a time until windows boots. When you find a winner, you’ll have to use that option each time. I believe it made 2 or 3 extra (very very small) partitions on the drive also (where it loaded NTLDR along with other things?) so hopefully when it does that it doesn’t overwrite anything important (I doubt it would?)
http://tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm
2 David B // Aug 27, 2008
your computer may be infected with the virus and Trojan
I suggest you use a comprehensive killing NOD
Then clean up your registry repair documents can be resolved
Please visit
http://www.Fix-pc-Master.com
Can help you
Good luck
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