Talk:NTLDR

Under construction

I'm in the midst of updating and rewriting many of the articles related to the Windows NT Startup Process, including this one; I plan to be finished by EOD Sat Jan 28. Warrens 02:43, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Archive

What is ARC??. I believe it stands for "Advanced RISC Computing". A file system used by UNIX and LINUX.

Must be some processor.

What about ntdetect.com? Delete it and NT no boot.

Switches

How about a description for each of the switches?

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I would put the "example" in an image on the right, but I don't know how to go about it. - Evil saltine 29 June 2005 00:10 (UTC)

I used Virtual PC to get a copy of the Advanced Options screen, but I don't have any virtual PC's running multiple O/S's. Otherwise I would of replaced the example box with an actual image. - Nidonocu 29 June 2005 10:34 (UTC)

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It would be great if someone would add details on how to use NTLDR to boot multiple systems on one machine. e.g. Windows XP Pro, Windows Server 2003, and Xandros Linux (my current configuration). I'd add this, but I don't feel comfortable enough with my limited knowledge of NTLDR to attempt to tell others how to do this.

NTLDR's can differ

Windows 2003 SP1 NTLDR can boot into a ramdrive. From the Win2k3 Service Pack 1.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?amp;displaylang=en&familyid=22CFC239-337C-4D81-8354-72593B1C1F43&displaylang=en Extract the files, to get the NTLDR

extract SETUPLDR.EX_ NTLDR

From there you can use:

BootDevice = "ramdisk(0)"
BootPath = "\i386\System32\"
OsLoadOptions = "/noguiboot /fastdetect /minint /rdimageoffset=36352 /rdpath=IMAGE.SDI"

SNIa 14:08, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

MD5

Maybe we could post the MD5's of different versions of the NTLDR? Would be nice to have this resource in a system audit.

SNIa 14:09, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

NTLDR Can also be loaded:

From PXE Boot. Yes Sir. SNIa 02:45, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

/TUTAG=<6 chars>

What is the switch /TUTAG=<6 chars> for? --84.161.143.48 16:39, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:NTLDR selection menu.png

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BetacommandBot (talk) 16:33, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Windows 7 and Windows 2008

NTLDR (abbreviation of NT Loader) is the boot loader for all releases of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system up to and including Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

Should be:

NTLDR (abbreviation of NT Loader) is the boot loader for all releases of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system up to and including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.80.134.2 (talk) 05:34, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

• NO - Versions of Windows after XP/2003 don't use NTLDR, they use BOOTMGR.EXE —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.249.240.184 (talk) 12:29, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
• ^^^^ GSMR (talk) 23:27, 9 November 2010 (UTC)