missing ntfs.sys

[habeansha]

i think i did something bad to my computer and now when i start it it tells me that the ntfs.sys is missing or corrupt and to insert the setup disk and push r
I didnt get a set up disk with the computer and i cant even get into windows. I tried booting with another hard drive that i have that has windows 98 on it but the entire hard drive with windows xp is not entirely recognized (the hard drive is somehow divided in to c and d because the computer manufacturers didnt want you to mess with part of it) is there any way that i can get into the hard drive so i can at least recover my data then reformat the hard drive?

 

[ohheck]

yep - put your xp hard drive as a secondary / slave drive on another xp pc - then you can get to your stuff -

have your done anything with your RAM lately ?

 

[habeansha]

i think the only thing i did was put in another 256 stick of RAM
but it was working fine for about a month with it

I thought maybe this might have been caused when i tried to change to boot screen but i know i didnt mess with that specific file

 

[ohheck]

try this:
http://www.memtest86.com/
found some posts about bad ram stick causing that error