1 Topic by docchang (edited by docchang 2008-08-19 01:47:31)

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Topic: NTLDR is missing

I resized Windows Server 2003's C drive from 10GB to 100GB using Gparted 0.3.7-7. When I reboot the first time it went fine. However when I reboot the second time....

NTLDR is missing!

I tried booting using the Windows Server 2003 CD, but it can not find my hard drives.

Any ideas?

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Re: NTLDR is missing

Did you check that the partitions are well on the drive?
Did you check that your system partition is flagged bootable?
Did you check if the partition order is the same as previous (no new partitions, no deleted partitions)?
Did you try to use the "recovery console" from the 2003 CD? This mode (command line) provides some useful commands like "fixmbr", "fixboot", "bootcfg".

There is a lot of interesting advices in the following publication:
http://ntldrismissing.com/
http://tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm

You can find more tutorials by searching the terms "NTLDR is missing" in google.

*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***