Windows won't startup

eddie57

eddie57

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I own an HP Pavilion ZT 1000. The kids broke the LCD and recently replaced it. It is the same part as the original. The picture on the LCD is great. I tested it and all the colors and images are clear, but now Windows that does not startup. Keep getting the message the “NTLDR in missing”.

It then gives me the following message on the screen:

We apologize for the inconvenience but windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this. It then gives me the following options:
Safe mode
Safe mode with networking
Safe mode with command prompt
Last known good configuration
Start windows normally

When I try starting in safe mode I get a bunch of lines that look like the following:
Multidisk\ rdisk\ partition windows\ system32\drivers\…….

I tried starting windows in all options, but it keeps going back to the above screen

I tried booting from the cdrom with the Windows XP and it says:
Boot Cdrom type: non-emulation booting
CDBOOT: “couldn’t find NTLDR”

I disconnected the LCD and connected my desktop’s monitor to my laptop, and I am still getting the same message. I had connected the monitor to the laptop a few months ago and it worked fine then. Could it be that the cdrom drive isn’t functioning? I don’t know what to do. If anyone has any suggestions I am eager to try just about anything. The laptop does not have an A drive so I can’t use a start up disk.

Thanks
Eddie
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When you say you try to boot off of the cd, is it the original XP cd, or a recovery cd? If its a recovery cd, then i would think that the problem is with the hard drive.
 
Followup

My kids lost the original cd's that came with the laptop. This is a new windows XP cd. Do you think the original recovery cd's might work?
I am open to any suggestions.

Thanks
Eddie
 
your boot.ini file is bad. if you boot.ini isn't correct, you will get the ntldr message. you need to bypass the boot files and boot to safemode, then start msconfig, on the boot.ini tab you will see a button "check all boot paths", it will retrain the boot.ini and you problem should be solved at that point, (unless you have worse things going on).

To bypass the boot files you need a floppy disk, and you need to copy the boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect files from another xp computer. Make sure that the computer you get the files from has the same partition layout as your machine or it won't work.

If all this is too complex, (and believe me there are more complex ways), you could always reinstall windows.
 
Followup

The problem is that it won't start in safe mode or any mode for that matter. It just keeps going back to that screen I mentioned above with all the options. I have no A drive. Any other suggestions?

Thanks
Eddie
 
A quick question, when you tried to start it in safe mode, how long did it for? I had to leave mine for 5 minutes in order to start. It if looks like it froze and you turned it off, try it again and leave it for 5 minutes then if it works you can use Byteman's advice
 
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It does not freeze, it just keeps going back to the options screen I mentioned in my first post or is turns off. Don't know what else to do.

Eddie
 
I've seen this also when the bios settings changed. I'd also attempt to enter the bios and make sure that your HD is set as a boot device. While you are in there set your CD/DVD ROM to be the first boot device and your HD the second.
 
To bypass the boot files you need a floppy disk, and you need to copy the boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect files from another xp computer. Make sure that the computer you get the files from has the same partition layout as your machine or it won't work.
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You have tried bypassing the boot files!... that will allow you get to safemode at a minimum...
 
I just did this last week, made a boot floppy disk with the 3 xp boot files. booted the computer using the floppy disks copy of the boot files, bypassing the boot files on the hard drive (the ntldr,boot.ini,ntdetect). the system boots normally from that point on, however you have to repair you boot files on your HD. BUT seeing as how you don't have a floppy... we'll have to think of something else...
 
What next?

I finally created a bootable cd using Nero. After I booted up this is what came up [ER=DOS] A:\> . What do I do now?


Thanks
Eddie
 
You'll have to create another. When I had to create a bootable windows CD installation I used http://www.ezbsystems.com/easyboot/ but there are many ways you can accomplish this. I'm sure Nero works fine also but I did not own it at the time and I've never used it to make a bootable disk.
 
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