Fatal Error 1 Loading Boot.ini
attempt to shutdown the computer, start Windows, or start a program in Windows then you may encounter error messages such as: A fatal exception XY has occurred at xxxx:xxxxxxxx Fatal errors are codes that returned by the program in following cases: • If the users encountered accessed to illegal instruction • If invalid data or code has been accessed to • The privilege level of any operation is invalid If any of these above cases occurs the processor returns an exception to the operating system which in turn is handled as fatal exception error. Description and Symptoms The error messages, warnings, alerts and symptoms are related to this error. Symptom 1: Fatal error while reading boot.ini If you are attempting to boot up your Windows PC this fatal error may be exhibited by NTLDR, which restricts the computer from successfully starting up. NTLDR: Fatal Error 1 reading BOOT.INI Both NTLDR and BOOT.INI error are very crucial components of Windows boot process: BOOT.INI helps to store all the list of installed operating system and the NTLDR is used in generating boot time menu that offers the selection of an OS. Some of these errors are as follows: • NTLDR: Fatal Error 256 reading BOOT.INI • NTLDR: Fatal Error 4096 reading BOOT.INI • NTLDR: Fatal Error 512 reading BOOT.INI • NTLDR: Fatal Error 2952 reading BOOT.INI etc. Causes behind the occurrence of these Errors Cause 1: Due to corruption caused in Boot partition If Windows Boot Partition gets corrupted the “NDLDR: Fatal error in reading boot.ini” this error occurs when configuration settings in boot.ini is in the attempt of booting the Windows XP installation. Corruption may occur in the boot partition may be result of unsafe writes on the boot partition, interrupted writes, sudden power loss that prevents some or all the contents from being read properly. Cause 2: Due to compressing of BOOT.INI file When users are attempt to compress the disk of the boot drive then in this attempt to reclaim the disk space or free up space use the disk space then this may accidentally compress the boot.ini in this process. This may happen with the software such as DoubleSpace, 3rd party file compression software or DriveSpace that compresses the NTFS File. The partition compression is the most primary cause of this error “NTLDR: fatal error reading boot.ini” when the error is number 1. Cause 3: Fragmented BOOT.INI file The cause of the “NTLDR: Fatal error in reading the
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