Hello

I had a pre installed vista vaio laptop. I converter it to dual boot system with windows XP installed on it. I didnt get any back up cd with the laptop but it has a separate partition for recovery which used to come up when i pressed F10 during system boot. Now when i converted it to dual boot and now when I am pressing F10 to restore factory settings its saying NTLDR missing. Since I needed to format, I just formatted the partition of XP and again tried to reboot. But again its saying the same when pressing F10. Although I am able to boot Vista normally

Its just that I am not able to get to the system recovery.



Thanks in Advance

You don't give the make and model of your laptop. Dell has a utility for
restoring the boot sector so that you can access the restore from a function
key after overwriting it.

"pratikiitd" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hello
>
> I had a pre installed vista vaio laptop. I converter it to dual boot
> system with windows XP installed on it. I didnt get any back up cd with
> the laptop but it has a separate partition for recovery which used to
> come up when i pressed F10 during system boot. Now when i converted it
> to dual boot and now when I am pressing F10 to restore factory settings
> its saying NTLDR missing. Since I needed to format, I just formatted the
> partition of XP and again tried to reboot. But again its saying the same
> when pressing F10. Although I am able to boot Vista normally
>
> Its just that I am not able to get to the system recovery.
>
> Thanks in Advance
>
>
> --
> pratikiitd

My laptop model is sony vaio SZ series

Reminds me of the time I was selling a laptop and whilst cleaning out the
hard drive. I saw a file called NTLDR and thought it had something to do
with my NTL broadband, so I deleted it - with eraser software!....Oh my
what a mistake!

Do what I did. Google NTLDR and you will find loads of answers, I fixed my
problem within minutes - lucky as someone was coming to view the lappy!!

Ron