NTLDR missing or NTDETECT.COM not found in windows XP

You have probem with “NTLDR is missing, Press any key to restart” during boot up ?

What is NTLDR ?

NTLDR (NT Loader) is the boot loader for all releases of Microsoft’s Windows NT operating system up to and including Windows XP.
This message NTLDR is missing indicates that the boot loader is either corrupted or missing due to some reason.

Let’s now see how we can fix it.

Fix:
There are two approaches to fix the missing boot loader in windows XP.

If your Windows is installed on FAT32 Partitions:

1. Boot your computer with a Win98 startup floppy.
2. Now, copy the NTLDR or NTDETECT.COM files from the i386 directory on your floppy to your windows installation drive (e.g in “c:\” in case the windows is installed on c:).


If your Windows is installed on NTFS Partitions:

1. Arrange for the bootable Windows XP setup CD.
2. Boot from CD select R=Repair option, by pressing R key during the setup.
3. Select the windows installation.
4. You need to enter in the administrator password when requested, if you had not set any password for the administrator account just press enter without typing.
5. Type the following commands to repair the bootloader, where X is the drive letter for your CD / DVD drive.
COPY X:\i386\NTLDR C\:
COPY X:\i386\NTDETECT.COM C:\
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Remove DriveMonitor.exe, FlashGuard.exe or DriveGuard.exe Virus

FlashGuard.exe or DriveMonitor.exe or DriveGuard.exe worm runs a process named with any of the .exe names.FlashGuard.exe also add itself to system startup, you can see through msconfig command.It also creates startup key in registry to run itself every time on system boot.

Remove FlashGuard.exe Worm

1. Inorder to remove FlashGuard.exe from your computer you need to first end its process running in task manager, right click the process and select end process

4. Now, open registry to delete the startup key created by the FlashGuard.exe Worm,
5.Open Start Menu--> Run, type regedit and press Enter key

Navigate to the Following path

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\FlashGuard

Now, you need to open your virus infected pen drive and delete the following files

pen drive letter\System\Security\DriveGuard.exe *
pen drive letter\autorun.inf


I hope the solution provided above will help you fix the problem.
2. Search for the files tmp.exe, delete DriveGuard.tmp.exe or gHmpg.tmp.exe and locate and delete these files.
3. Go to Start Menu --> Run, type msconfig and press Enter key.


4. Now, open registry to delete the startup key created by the FlashGuard.exe Worm,
5.Open Start Menu--> Run, type regedit and press Enter key

Navigate to the Following path

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\FlashGuard

Now, you need to open your virus infected pen drive and delete the following files

pen drive letter\System\Security\DriveGuard.exe *
pen drive letter\autorun.inf


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How to Update & Backup your PC hardware Drivers ?

DriverMax is free tool which allows you to download, update and backup all your computer drivers with the latest release in just one click. This saves you from installing the drivers on by one and rebooting each time or even when you install a new OS. Once installed it will start indexing your drivers. Being available free for Windows XP and Windows Vista users it can solve a lot of time for general users.

Here are the complete set of features :

• Export and Import your windows xp or Vista drivers. You can also get a report on this. The major advantage of exporting is when you again re install your OS, you can just use this backup to install all your hardware drivers in one shot.
• It can check for driver updates, identify the unknown hardware and give you a detailed report again on this.
• It has a popular hardware section which according to your OS ( Windows XP or Vista ) can find Best Hardware, Popular Video cards and popular processors. This has nothing to do with driver updates but this is something which can give an insight which hardware are most commonly used and so on.
• It also suggests you to create an online account so you can maintain a profile online including you computer driver updates and so on.

This software rocks to find all the faulty driver installation on your computer. A perfect freeware which you should have.

Click to Download DriverMax

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How to convert .exe files to .jpg

Hello friends, Here I am giving how you can convert .exe files to .jpg, I wish that it will be very helpful for someone.
Here is the steps for converting .exe files to .jpg
1. First Step, Create a new folder and please check that “Show hidden files” is checked and “hide extensions for known file types” is unchecked in folder options.

2. Copy your exe file source in that folder for example called first.exe.
3. Now you have to rename this first.exe file to whatever you want.Here suppose you are renaming it to second.jpeg. When you trying to renaming it windows will warn you like if you really want to change this extension from exe to jpeg, then click on YES.
4. Now create one shortcut of secong.jpeg in same folder and renaming shortcut to whatever you want suppose you are renaming it to third.exe.
5. Now right click on third.exe and go to properties, Here you have to do some changes mentioned below.
6. Delete all things which are present in start in field and leave it empty.
7. Now in this step you have to write the path to open other files second.jpeg like this: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c second.jpeg
8. The last field, c second.jpeg is always the name of the first file. If you called the first file demo.avi then you you have to write C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c demo.avi
9. Now here what you are doing is So what you are doing is when someone clicks on third.jpeg, a command will execute the other file second.jpeg and the source will run.
10. Now right click on third.jpeg, go to properties and then you will see one option to change your icon. Click this and then a new window will open. You have to write this : %SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll and then press OK.
11. All things are done but you have to remember two things in your mind that these 2 files must be together in the same folder and to get connected to someone they must click on the shortcut created not on the first file. So rename the files to whatever you want considering the person and the knowledge they have on this matter.

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Some cool Mozilla Firefox Tricks and Tips

Hello Friends , Here I am writing some cool Firefox tricks which are very helpful in using Mozilla Firefox. As we know Mozilla Firefox is the Best and very good browser with extensions, add-ons, Language Packs, Plug ins and themes and many new things by which you can execute JavaScript. Mozilla Firefox also has other features like Tabbed browsing, Pop up blocking, Cookie Manager, Download Manager, pause downloads, JavaScript Console, JavaScript Debugger, Select text and perform search, View Selection Source, Cross-platform, Display icons in tabs and address bar, HTTP Pipe lining, XML Base, CSS generated content, CSS2 selectors, Caret Browsing etc. Below are some tricks and tips by which you can use Mozilla Firefox easily.
1. Here is the Keyboard shortcuts.
- Space bar (page down)
- Ctrl+K (go to search box)
- Alt-N (find next)
- Ctrl+L (go to address bar)
- Ctrl+= (increase text size)
- Ctrl+D (bookmark page)
- F5 (reload)
- Ctrl+- (decrease text size)
- Ctrl-W (close tab)
- Alt-Home (go to home page)
- Ctrl+F (find)
- Shift-Spacebar (page up)
- Ctrl+T (new tab)

2. Sometimes in hurry by mistake you click on close button of Firefox tabs. But In Mozilla Firefox you can remove or move close tab button by about:config. Type about:config in address bar then search for browser.tabs.closeButton in search bar. When you find it double click on it. It will show you a prompt with by default value 1. You can change it to different values for different behaviors.
- Enter 0 to display a close button on the active tab only.
- Enter 1 (default Value) to display close button to all tabs.
- Enter 2 to don’t display any close buttons.
- Enter 3 to display single close button at the end of the tab bar.

3. Now we know Mozilla Firefox have giving feature of multiple tabs , so sometimes it is very hard to handle multiple tabs with mouse, so you can also handle tabs by keyboard. Below are some tips to handle tabs by keyboard.
- Ctrl+Tab (rotate forward among tabs)
- Ctrl+Shft+Tab (rotate to the previous tab)
- Ctrl+1-9 (choose a number to jump to a specific tab)

4. Here is the Mouse shortcuts for Mozilla Firefox.
- Middle click on link (opens in new tab)
- Shift-scroll down (previous page)
- Shift-scroll up (next page)
- Ctrl-scroll up (decrease text size)
- Ctrl-scroll down (increase text size)
- Middle click on a tab (closes tab)

5. about:config : This is a feature of Mozilla which lists aaplication and configuration setting of Mozilla. You can Get all settings configuration of your Mozilla by enter about:config in your address bar of Mozilla.

6. If you want to spped up your Mozilla Firefox then
- Type about:config into the address bar and hit return. Type network. http in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):
- Set network.http.pipelining to true
- Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true
- Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
- Now, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0?. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

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