Re: [Unattended] NTLDR Missing - Nooooo!!!!!

[Tim B. <ti...@ne...>]

Falko Trojahn wrote:
> Well, I've uploaded another 2.6.17 cvs version  with parted 1.6.22
> which I have in use here:
> http://www.smi-softmark.de/unattendedcvs/unattended-cvs-2.6.17.tar.bz2
>
> What I recently had was an Compaq Evo N800c with the famous NTLDR
> message, and when I reactivated the line
>    format_cmd="format /y /z:seriously /q /u /a /v: c:"
> which hadn't been needed IMHO since I use parted to format the drive
> - - the NTLDR message was gone.
Unfortunately this version still didn't work. And we already have the 
format line there.
I just did another run, but this time edited the doit.bat before it "did 
it". I took the last line off so setup didnt start, then I continued. I 
saw the format happen, then as expected, I dropped to a DOS style 
prompt. Hit CTRL+ALT+DEL and the laptop rebooted, and I started up my 
favorite partition manager.
It lists one ~60GB FAT32 partition as a primary and active.
The MBR has an unknown IPL (which I assume is the FreeDOS one).
There are no errors listed anywhere...
BUT - There is more than 600MB used on that partition apparently. This 
shouldn't be the case since the format should have removed it. I have a 
suspicion that the format isn't happening for some reason.

Tim Bates

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