Thursday, January 21, 2010

Solve Problems like - NTLDR missing, Windows can not find hal.dll and other windows boot issues

Following procedure will fix boot issues on windows, where these issues are related to partition structure change on hard drive. Typical example of this is when you put image of windows partition on a different hard drive with different partition structure then original hard drive where image was created.

Follow these steps to fix this errors.

1. Boot into recovery console from any windows installation disk or multiboot cds.

Type following commands and follow instructions shown on the screen for each commands

2. fixboot c:

3. fixmbr \device\harddisk0

4. bootcfg /rebuild

reboot computer and it should boot fine into windows.

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