I NEED YOUR HELP MY NOTEBOOK COMPAQ NC6000 DOESN'T BOOT IT SHOWS NTLDR MISSING
Either the ntldr file (usually on the root of C:\) is actually missing or it's corrupt.
I MADE A BOOTABLE CD WITH NTLDR
What type of bootable CD?
a) A CD with just NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM, and BOOT.INI on the boot sector of a CD?
b) A CD with MS-DOS files on it along with NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM, and BOOT.INI?
c) A CD with DR-DOS files on it along with NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM, and BOOT.INI?
d) A Windows 98 disc?
e) An Ultimate Boot CD?
f) A BartPE CD?
g) A WinPE 2.0/2.1 CD?
h) A Linux Live CD?
There are many kinds of bootable CDs, so you need to be more specific. BTW, choices b) and c) above won't boot unless those files are written to the boot sector of the disc and not the data sectors of the disc itself.
BUT IT DOESN'T START UP IT SHOWS ME THAT THAT HAL.DLL IS MISSING A MADE ANOTHER BOOTABLE CD WITH NTLDR AND HAL.DLL
See above.
BUT IT SIT DOESN'T START WINDOWS BUT IT STARTS ANOTHER PROGRAM CALDERA DR-DOS
That right there tells me that your laptop
can boot to a CD. Otherwise, Caldera DR-DOS wouldn't have executed (which was on the CD you created at the time).
In other words, you did c) above, writing them to the boot sector.
AND SHOWS THIS MESSAGE:THE SYSTEM MEMORY MANAGER (EMM386.EXE) HAS DETECTED AN ERROR CAUSED BY A FAULT IN ONE OF THE DEVICE DRIVERS OR PROGRAMS LOADED IN THE SYSTEM. AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO BECAUSE IT DOESN'T HAVE THE OPTION TO BOOT FROM THE CD EVEN IN BIOS CAN U HELP ME PLEASE?
You made the DR-DOS disc correctly--it's just that part of DR-DOS isn't compatible with your laptop.
I would suggest choice a) above if you can do it correctly.
Choice a) Instructions:
1a) If you have a physical floppy drive, copy NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM, and BOOT.INI to the floppy.
2a) Use Nero or Roxio to create a bootable CD using the floppy.
or
1b) If you don't have a floppy, then Google for a program called "Virtual Floppy Drive" or "VFD." Create the VFD, then copy the files to it.
2b) Use the resulting floppy image in Roxio or Nero to create your bootable CD.
Otherwise, if that's too much of a hassle, go with choice g) and put NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM, and BOOT.INI on a flash drive.
Choice g) instructions:
1) Create your PE disc.
The easiest way I've found to create a PE disc is to follow these instructions:
http://www.msfn.org/board/How-to-make-a-basic-WinPE-20-CD-t83722.html&hl=2Mount.bat2) Once you create the PE disc, try to boot from it (don't worry about the BIOS--you were able to boot from a CD before, so you should be able to boot from this one). Just make sure your computer has at least 384 MB of RAM or else PE will crap on you.
3) While it's booting, plug in the flash drive with NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM, and BOOT.INI on it.
4) When PE is up and running, you'll see a command prompt. The drives will probably be assigned as follows:
C: The drive with Windows XP on it giving you **** about NTLDR.
D: Your CD-ROM drive.
E: Your flash drive with the three files on it.
X: Windows PE's RAM drive.
(although D and E may actually be switched above).
5) Type in the following commands, pressing Enter after each one:
C:ren ntldr ntldr.oldren ntdetect.com ntdetect.com.oldren boot.ini boot.ini.oldE:copy ntldr c:copy ntdetect.com c:copy boot.ini c:notepad6) In notepad, click File -> Open.
7) Go to the C drive and find boot.ini. Open it.
Make sure your boot.ini is referencing the correct partition. It should look something like this:
[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
If not, change it. The last line may have /noexecute=optin or something like that. That's okay.
Save your changes and close Notepad.
9) Close the command prompt. This will shut down PE and restart your computer. Remove the PE disc and the flash drive.
