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Dexter:
Hello all,

I'm trying to boot into arcadeos from bootup but when I try I'm getting 'NTLDR is missing'. The drive has a primary dos partition and an autoexec.bat and config.sys files also.

Is there an easy way to remedy this guys?? HELP

Dexter

Mameotron:
Well, I'm no expert, but I do know that NTLDR is the program that selects what parts of the operating system to load up.  NTLDR gets this info from the boot.ini file, but I don't know why you wouldn't have the NTLDR.  If it is missing for some reason I think you might have to do a new install.

FDISK fixes everything!!!

Edit:  I just saw on the Everything Else forum a thread just started up about a DOSbox tutorial.  You might wanna watch that one, too.

Silver:
NTLDR is short for NT Loader, and is only associated with Windows OS from NT onwards/or dual boot situations.

Assuming you are not trying to dual boot (have 2 different OS's available on the same machine) then you have the incorrect bootcode on your hard drive, presumably left over from when the hard drive was used for running windows...

Dos requires a few more files - config.sys and autoexec.bat are not even required to boot - but they are hidden/system files.

Anyway, the easiest way round this is to get a bootable floppy with DOS on it (google for Dos boot disk, there are lots to download out there). I think a lot of people use DOS "7" or the version of DOS that windows 9x runs over. Then boot your machine from the floppy, and the command you need to run is "sys c:" assuming your harddrive is identified as c:

And yes, fdisk may be needed if there are problems idenitfying the drive. Fdisk can wipe and create partitiions for you, which you will then need to format ("format c:") before running the sys command....

Hope that helps....

Dexter:
Its not a dual boot, just a standalone dos drive for inside a cocktail cab. So the command 'sys C:' will transfer the files from the flopy to the Hard Drive, yes?

Dexter

spystyle:
If you like DOS you'll love FreeDOS,

http://www.freedos.org/

Groovy?
Craig

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