Good thinking still, but I just searched with "Find" and file was not present in XP windows directory.
I think when you run setup, in some cases like windows98, the boot files are backed up on the root of the hard drive. I probably did the same to the W2K NTLDR file as a habbit when I was installing XP.
If the file was not in the recyle bin, other than ropy's solution and all yours, I do not know of any other solution. Those are simple and practical. For real .
Let's act on what we agree on now, and argue later on what we don't.
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