Microsoft Windows operating system allows you to configure dual-boot system with another operating system or other version of Windows operating system. Dual-boot configuration is generally done to take benefit of the features of two operating systems on a single computer. But in some situations, when you use Microsoft Windows XP in dual-dual boot with Microsoft Windows NT, you might come across critical situations. Your system might not boot up and all of the hard drive partitions become inaccessible. This behavior of Microsoft Windows XP results into serious partition loss situations and require Partition Recovery to be fixed.

In a practical scenario, when you attempt to start you Microsoft Windows XP computer, with dual-boot configuration, you might come across the below given error message:

“Windows XP could not start because the following files were missing or corrupted:
WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM NTLDR MISSING
You can try to repair this file by starting the Windows Setup program from original

floppies or boot from CD-ROM.
Select ‘r’ at first screen to repair.”

After this error message, the boot process gets terminated and the system does not start up. It renders all of your Windows partitions inaccessible and cause partition loss situations. At this point, you need to find out the cause of this problem and carry out Partition Recovery be resolving it.

Root of the issue

You might encounter this situation, if any of the below give situations are true:

  • You are performing dual-boot procedures with Windows NT 4.0 and Microsoft Windows XP and you have installed the NT 4.0 after installing Windows XP.

  • You have reinstalled Microsoft Windows NT 4.0.

The Windows NT 4.0 can not detect additional startup features of Microsoft Windows XP and thus it replaces the shared MS Windows boot files (such as Ntdetect.com and Ntldr).

Resolution

In order to solve this issue, you need to format the hard drive and reinstall the Windows XP operating system. This will install new boot files and sort out the issue. But this method has a disadvantage that it removes all the hard drive partitions and cause grave partition loss situations. In such cases, Partition Recovery Software come for your rescue.

These are efficient third party applications, which use advanced scanning algorithms to methodically scan entire hard drive and retrieve all of the lost partitions. The Partition Recovery Software have interactive and self-descriptive interface to provide easy recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most excellent solution to handle all sorts of partition loss situations. It recovers FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions. This software is designed for Microsoft Windows 7 RC1, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.