Using Recovery Console to Repair Windows XP/2003 server.

Using Recovery Console

(While Booting From CD)

If for any region your computer is not booting up & showing “NTLDR file missing or corrupted or compressed”

you can copy NTLDR file from recovery console

To Choose Recovery Console

1. Insert OS CD in CD-ROM & Restart your computer.

2. Press any key to boot from CD

3. Next you’ll get the option to “Repair or Enter Setup” Press R for repair using Recovery console.

4. Here you will be in DOS mode.

5. After the first question, type 1 and press enter.

Type the administrator password (if available) and hit enter.

6. Type CD .. (Note there must be a space between CD and ..)

This will bring you to the main "C" directory.

7. Then type “d:” to locate the CD-Rom Drive

8. D:\>dir

9. cd i386

To Copy file

10. Copy ntldr c:\

11. Copy ntdetect.com c:\

To decompress

12. c:\attrib -C ntldr

13. Exit