19 Jan
2005
19 Jan
'05
10:44 p.m.
NOBODY has mentioned ANY third party utilities that
will WRITE an NTFS
partition. NTFSDOS PRO will, but it is very expensive (the free one is
read-only)
Booting an alternate OS (Knoppix?) looks like the most promising.
Or removing the drive and installing it as second drive in a functional
machine.
Another option would be the bart pe
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
If you have a windows xp cd, this will give you xp that runs from a
cd. Also good to have in your toolbox.
Dan
BTW, I located this KB article after someone I
know thought he would be good
and clean up his root folder by moving "unnecessary" files -- including
ntldr -- to other folders. Next time he rebooted: surprise! no boot.
Their "boot disk" seems to work if files are MISSING, but not if they are
present (damaged)
I think that if I could ERASE the bad file, then I could boot and fix it.