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How to fix boot problems in Windows XP/2003

There are many questions at this forum about boot loader problems. This method will help in fixing ~90% of problems, like this:

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Follow the basic instructions:
1. boot from USB drive or Windows CD to recovery console

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Soon you will see this screen, press R to boot recovery console

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Recovery console black screen will appear, wait a little bit

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That, select the copy of Windows you have on your PC:

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Login as Administrator. Usually there is no password, just press Enter:

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2. Fix the Master Boot Record boot code
Enter fixmbr and press Enter. This will write correct master boot record to your hard drive:

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Enter Y and press Enter:

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3. Fix the boot record on drive C:
Now, enter fixboot c: and press Enter:

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Enter Y and press Enter to do this:

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4. Rebuild boot.ini file
It’s a file holding information about all Windows on your PC, enter bootcfg /rebuild and Windows recovery console will filed all Windows installed and put it to boot.ini:

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Than enter the name of Windows boot loader will show in the screen when you press F8 key
OS load parameters can be blank (just press enter)

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5. Copy boot files to drive C:
Go to your CD of USB drive to i386 folder and copy ntdetect and ntldr (and bootfont.bin if you have non-US Windows version):
E:
cd i386
copy ntdenect.com c:\
copy ntldr c:\

Where E: is your CD/USB drive name. For USB path will be \$WIN_NT$.~LS\i386 instead of \i386 for CD.

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Written by isaaconi

September 25, 2012 pada 8:48 am

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