WARNING! dont ever delete the file NTLDR!


this morning i was cleaning up my computer at work and deleted the file NTLDR. I should not have done so!

after that i rebooted and got the message :
NTLDR is Missing
Press any key to restart

i couldnt even get into the boot menu (safe mode).

i could create a boot disk, and then boot up from there .. but that wouldnt allow me on the NTFS disk c: where i deleted the file.

i tried to do a recovery via the windowsxp cd, but i needed the admin password for that (which i had entered 3 or more years ago and didnt write down (yeah i am a fool :))

so i was badly stuck!

Here i found a free bootdisk which allowed me to read the ntfs partition, but i couldnt write to it

Here i found a boot disk which contained the NTLDR file, but still i couldnt get to my NTFS partition

Then i found This bootdisk!! this allowed me to boot up and even copy to the NTFS system

be sure to use 'copy ntldr c:\' with the backslash, otherwise it wont work

i am a happy person again :)
*phew*