Missing NTLDR in Win98 SE !!! 1

[ylan]

After loading A Tax 2003 Program, I was told to restart my PC (Win98 SE, Pentium III, 550 Mhz) . Suddenly, my system could not load Win 98 SE any more and gave the message " NTLDR is missing" and asked to restart again ??? When I did, the same error message reappeared .

When I restarted, I made sure there was no floppy disk or CD-Rom left in the system removable drives. Still , nothing changed. A friend of mine suggested to boot Win 98 SE with a bootdisk then use commands:
"A:\Fdisk /MBR " then "A:\ Sys C:"
I would like to have second opinions on how to to fix the problem. Please comment. Thanks

 

[carrr]

See this:

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm

"'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds." - Malaclypse the Younger

 

[ylan]

Thanks for the excellent ref. But I still wish to hear comments on the use of

"A:\Fdisk /MBR " then "A:\ Sys C:"

To tell you the truth, I have no clue why I need to mess with MBR ? and what do these commands do ?

 

[carrr]

Re: fdisking the MBR

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...pport/kb/articles/Q69/0/13.ASP&NoWebContent=1

and

A:\Sys C: transfers from your floppy/A: drive to your C: drive



"'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds." - Malaclypse the Younger