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That’s it! Now go ahead and remove the CD and type quit. Where cd is the drive letter for the CD-ROM drive that has your Windows XP CD and drive is the drive where you installed Windows XP (most likely C:). Now type in the following command: copy cd:\i386\ntfs.sys drive:\windows\system32\drivers This basically renames the current ntfs.sys file to something else so that we can replace it with a new one that hopefully is not corrupted. Now that you are at the command prompt, you need to enter in the following DOS commands, pressing Enter after each one: cd \windows\system32\drivers

You’ll also need to know the administrator password in order to get to the command prompt. Next, type the number for the installation you want to logon to from the Recovery Console. When the Welcome screen appears, press R to select the To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R option. Pop in your Windows CD into the computer and boot off the CD when prompted to “ Press any key to boot from CD“. Use the Recovery Console to Replace Ntfs.sys I’ll explain their method first, which did not work for me, and then two other possible methods to fix this issue.

I tried to run defragmenter and it froze in the middle. In particular, it states that you might get this message when you convert your hard disk from FAT to NTFS. When you do a search in Google for ntfs.sys is missing or corrupt, the first result is from Microsoft Support. Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: System32\Drivers\Ntfs.sys