How to Fix a Corrupt NTFS.SYS Error
Don’t you love having one of those days when all is going down the spiral. You get home from a hard day at work. Ran out of gas and even the dog doesn’t want anything to do with you. You think to your self perhaps a little facebooking will get me in a better mood at least maybe I can troll some of my friends posts or see if anyone will give you some sympathy for your bad day (no daniel powter please).
You grab your trusty laptop and some chips and you favorite diet drink cause you cant handle drinking the calories but eating them seems like a good idea. You get all settled and comfortable and crack open your laptop (that you affectionately call Harvey.(dont ask I just make these things up)). Pushing the power button gives you a bit of exhilaration and you here familiar sounds of the hard drive spinning up.(of course if you have a new laptop you wouldn’t hear that but for the sake of argument you and harvey have been around a while.)
Then in the darkness of a dos prompt you get a harry ugly and just pathetic error with something almost sinister pops up saying something like NTFS.SYS error. What the *&(%! you scream spilling your diet soda and the dog steals you chips in your excitement. You then surf to my website and get this little convoluted list of how to fix it.
Enjoy:
1. Insert the Windows XP CD into your CD-ROM and reboot your pc.
2. Allow the basic setup files to load into memory.
3. At the Welcome to Setup screen press R.
4. This will start the Recovery console and the list of Windows installations will appear.
5. As you only have one installation on your PC you need to press the number which is relevant to your installations location. This, obviously will typically be 1
6. You will need to enter your Administrator password. If you are using Windows XP Home edition the administrator password is blank by default so simply press Enter.
7. At the Recovery Console command prompt type: cd \windows\system32\drivers
8. Next press Enter.
9. The windows system 32 drivers directory will now open.
10. Now type: ren ntfs.sys ntfs.old
11. Again press Enter.
12. If a message appears telling you that the Ntfs.sys file was not found, then the file is actually missing rather than corrupt.
13. The above command will change the name of your corrupt file from Ntfs.sys to Ntfs.old
14. Now type the following at the command prompt substituting the X (after copy) with the drive letter of your CD and the X (after drive) with the drive letter of your hard drive. The hard drive usually being the C:/ drive.
15. copy X:\i386\ntfs.sys drive X:\windows\system32\drivers
16. Remove the Windows XP CD from your CD-ROM.
17. Now in the command prompt type: Exit
18. Restart your PC to make sure the problem has been rectified.
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