missing NTLDR after 2003 SP2 install

[lacasa]

I have a HP Proliant ML310 G3 with RAID 1. I installed Server 2003 R2 - Disk 1 only and when I ran windows update it installed SP2. After rebooting it gives a missing NTLDR error. I went to recovery mode and copied the NTLDR, ntdetect to the C drive. There was also no boot.ini so I created one and placed on C drive.
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft
Windows Server 2003, Standard" /fastdetect

After rebooting then I get a missing ntoskrnl file message.

Is my boot.ini wrong?

I have an embedded SATA RAID on the Proliant.

I think my boot.ini is wrong. But the system before was working.

I have a C partition for OS and 3 more data partitions. I had to reinstall the OS this morning. It is a DC with all FSMO roles. The other DC is running. I deleted the C partition and reinstalled in that unpartitioned space.

Any ideas? I was running SP2 before the reinstall.

 

[Zelandakh]

So you've just wiped the partition and reloaded? Sounds like you've wiped the system partition or set the disk to look at a different partition as bootable.

If you've now wiped it, you can't recover without a backup so have you now got it booting?

 

[lacasa]

thanks for your reply. It is now booting after discovering something stupid I did. It has been a long day.

Anyway now I am running Windows update -all 52 of them. If one of them is IE8 I will not install (I had not installed IE8 before the crash. I will install IE7 and then since this was a DC before it will have I think all of the updates before I crashed the system.

Then I will perform a backup of the system and then restore the system state from a backup from about 4 days ago. I believe I have to do it this way since it is not now a DC, I don't have the Directory Services restore option.

Some questions - The former DC was a DHCP, WINS, and DNS server. Is that part of system state? No big deal as thisi is easy to setup.

Or should I just promote this freshly installed PC to a DC. It formerly was a DC with all FSMO roles. If I promote then with the other DC will I beable new FSMO roles.

Thanks for any help.