Microsofts suggestion did not work!

gmuser · #21 23-Apr-2004, 18:46

I also have a Maxtor 120 GB harddrive. I also have the ntfs.sys corrupt or missing error. I did what Microsoft suggested by renaming the ntfs.sys file and then adding from my MSFT CD but it did not do the trick.
Any suggestions?

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Originally Posted by JdS

I think the only person in this thread that even mentioned this is Acester25, he seemed to have no luck with it... however, we might as well insert it in here somewhere so others may try this before they try anything else.

If this works for anyone else reading this thread it will be helpful for you to say so here so others can learn from your experience.

Hood · #22 24-Apr-2004, 04:00

sorry to say it mate but the only sollution i had was to reformat - luckily all was not lost as i had previously "ghosted" my hd.......... i stronly recomend anyone buy norton ghost as it is a life saver and wil always prevail...oh and the fact is norton r best, so u cn be rest assured ur pc is in safe hands.well as safe as a pcs can get!

Ozz1113 · #23 15-May-2004, 09:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by JdS

I think the only person in this thread that even mentioned this is Acester25, he seemed to have no luck with it... however, we might as well insert it in here somewhere so others may try this before they try anything else.

If this works for anyone else reading this thread it will be helpful for you to say so here so others can learn from your experience.

Just to bring this back from the dead....
I had this problem also, and was not able to enter the windows setup. I switched ram chips and that did the trick. I logged into the recovery console, followed the above steps and BAM windows was back on line. I replaced the original ram and it still worked. Thanks!

JdS · #24 15-May-2004, 09:17

Hello Ozz1113,

This thread is certainly not dead! MANY people find this thread DAILY (just look at the page views count for this thread!). So adding relevant information to this [unresolved] thread is always something we encourage and welcome.

Thank you... you've earned yourself some REP!

Ozz1113 · #25 15-May-2004, 16:58

OMG, you're right. I actually found this thread while searching for the problem on msn. I just saw the view count now, 12.5k!

Thanks again for the post, that saved my dad's pc.

ocnewb · #26 29-May-2004, 00:17

In my case it was simply because the ram timings were too tight, try something like 7-3-3-2.5 and see if it helps. I wouldnt recommend panicing and reformatting, it's more than likely not a HD or corrupt file problem. It could be caused by simply adding cheap ram that cant do tight timings. Maybe even up the timings to 7-4-4-3 or something of the like if you paid 30 bucks for a stick of crap and thought you got a deal.

PcCowboy · #27 21-Jun-2004, 22:09

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Originally Posted by MickeyAA

Yeah it booted with just the new 256mb ram installed but came out the same error message saying 'missing ntfs file'. As long as the 256mb ram is installed, no matter which slot i fix, the error message will pops out. My current brand are those OEM ram, and the new one is from Kingston. My current 3 sticks of 128mb ram have different number of chips too. The 1st stick has 8chips while the 2nd and 3rd ram had 16chips. But everything runs smoothly as long as the new 256mb ram is not installed in. So, i guessed i'll just have to send that ram back and exchange for a new one...

Check your motherboard book. I bought new ram and had all kinds of problem. I learned that you can only run DS (doublesided) and SS (singlesided) ram in certain slots, in certain order, My book showed a graph on which slots could hold which type of memory and in which order.

BTW I came here looking for answers to the NTSF.sys problem, and found it. I removed one ram chip from my son's computer, and now it boots. Thanks

Garth Farley · #28 22-Jun-2004, 03:22

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Originally Posted by PcCowboy

BTW I came here looking for answers to the NTSF.sys problem, and found it. I removed one ram chip from my son's computer, and now it boots. Thanks

Glad we could help! It looks like this is quite a common error.
GF

PcCowboy · #29 22-Jun-2004, 17:53

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Originally Posted by Garth Farley

Glad we could help! It looks like this is quite a common error.
GF

Now I have to find out why. He has been running these two ram chips for over 6 months. I bought both of them at the same time, and they are the same kind and size. Maybe one went bad, that would be $49 bucks down the drain for a 256mb DDR400

Pc

Garth Farley · #30 23-Jun-2004, 08:35

I don't know how successful this may be, but perhaps you could test your computers memory. There's a util, aptly names memtest, which runs in dos and should verify isf it's a faulty dimm. Link: www.home.earthlink.net

Best run it from a dos boot disk.
GF

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