geewhiz

Hello all.

I'm stuck. I have a machine with win2000 on it. It was using an old 10 gig harddrive. It is just an email machine. So I decided to take a free 40 gig drive and mirror the 10 to the 40 to give it alittle more space. I'm using norton ghost 10, which probably makes me doomed from the start, but I purchased it awhile back so i'm stuck with it for now.

Anyway, after grabbing the image from the 10 gig, verifying the image, and putting it onto the 40 gig, whenever I boot the machine I get "ntldr missing, press any key to reboot". After alittle searching, I found a website with a little proggy that will make a floppy disk that will boot my machine to windows. It is "http://www.tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm" if anyone is interested.

So I can boot into windows and everything works fine from that point. However I can't boot the machine without the floppy. I tried everything listed in the websites "What if the bootdisk worked, but I can't get into Windows without it?" section. All of which were some good suggestions.

Copying the diskette's bootfiles into my root directory didn't work. Inside of computer management, the "Set partition as active" is grayed out, so I'm guessing it is set as such. I have tried a checkdisk, and booting to recovery console to attempt both a fixboot and fixmbr. All without any success.

Has anyone seen or had any success with this ntldr error before? I guess my only option is a complete repair install?