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<p>The following tip will help you to repair the boot loader on Windows XP Operating System.</p>
<p>First you must reboot the system from your XP CD.</p>
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<p>When prompted select the option to enter the recovery console. Select the installation to be repaired followed by the administrator password.</p>
<p>Type Fixboot and answer Yes to the prompt.</p>
<p>Then type in the following commands and leave all spaces eactly as they appear here.</p>
<p><span style="color: #003366;">CD \</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #003366;">ATTRIB -H NTLDR</span><br />
<span style="color: #003366;"> ATTRIB -S NTLDR</span><br />
<span style="color: #003366;"> ATTRIB -R NTLDR</span><br />
<span style="color: #003366;"> ATTRIB -H NTDETECT.COM</span><br />
<span style="color: #003366;"> ATTRIB -S NTDETECT.COM</span><br />
<span style="color: #003366;"> ATTRIB -R NTDETECT.COM</span><br />
<span style="color: #003366;"> COPY X:\I386\NTLDR C:\ ( X IS THE LETTER OF YOUR CDROM )</span><br />
<span style="color: #003366;"> COPY X:\I386\NTDETECT.COM C:\ ( X IS THE LETTER OF YOUR CDROM)</span></p>
<p>This should repair Windows XP boot loader.</p>
<p>Reboot afterwards.</p>