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How to unravel my mess with Windows Installation NTLDR
Hi
Its a long story with a bad ending (so far) but I will try to be as brief as possible.
Recently I got a secondhand laptop that was running Windows 7.
I also got a home made copy of Windows7.
Thinking I was clever, I decided to reinstall Windows from the disc to erase any left over stuff from the previous user.
The home made disc worked but when I went to register it with the HP activation code I got an error message and was unable to activate.
No probs, I decided to try to restore from Windows.old and just leave it as it was.
Now the really dumb thing - I had heaps of trouble trying to restore but I just happened to have a XP disc so decided to install that instead.
When trying to install that I got a blue screen saying something about possible virus or hard drive damage and restart.
So I went back to trying to recover from Windows.old.
This time with more success but when I went to restart I got an error message saying NTLDR is missing and now nothing happens.
I have tried rebooting with both the windows 7 and xp discs without success.
Yes, I know, I should have left it alone!
Any idea what to do next?
Can it be fixed from here (remembering I cannot get it to reboot at all)
Thanks
Last edited by MADM; 21 Sep 2015 at 05:21.