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  3. September 2004

Re: Norton Ghost - NTLDR is missing, Win2000 won't boot from disk

Neil Palmer/DPS wrote:
Where am I at now ? Well I created a Win2000 boot diskette (ntldr, ntdetect.com & boot.ini copied from a Win 2000 Pro PC (mine actually, I put the "dying" disk back in for a while) after a full format of the diskette on my Win2000 Pro PC. If I leave the diskette in the drive when 
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Did you copy the entire disk to an image, or just the partition?

Any chance the thinkpad had a specialized boot partition that boots BEFORE Windows boots?

It might be worth trying to install Windows from scratch, then restore the image.

I've used the copy of Ghost that Symantec includes with Norton System Works Pro multiple times to image my laptop to the network and restore without a problem afterwards.

david

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