Yip, thus the misleading title that would give all Linux fanbois something to snicker about
This happend to me on my older laptop, the Acer Travelmate 8104.
Win XP Pro just died during shutdown, when I rebooted it game me the
'Missing NTDLR' error message. I tried recovery console but it didn't help.
Registry was fu-barred and loading "Last Known Settings which Worked" didn't work.
I had to reinstall Windoze from the recovery disk.
Windows is like that. It's a garbage operating system, sadly we have to use it because all the apps are written for Windows. There is also MacOS X but that also has it's dedicated apps and I run a Mac Pro at home already.
I just remembered Windows did the same on an older P4 3.2GHz desktop I got too. It just died once, and had to reinstall Windows, nothing worked, even trying to recover the registry using various methods failed. Even older registry backups failed for some reason. Only a full reinstall did the trick.
Of course 95, 98 and ME were much worse. Once installing a screen driver for my Samsung Syncmaster in 1998 killed by Win98 installation. Again, complete reinstall was necessary. Which sucks because you have to reinstall every application - and Win itself takes forever to install.
