NTLDR is missing ??

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Hi
could anyone please help me?
when i start my computer an error message 'NTLDR is missing press CTL ALT DEL to restart' appears
any suggestions??

Thanks
Pablo

 

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It means that the Boot sector on the hard drive cannot be found.

Do you have the Operating System CD?

 

Make sure there are no floppies, pen drives etc connected.

 

http://www.protostorm.com/bcupdate2.html

 

The number of times I've seen this message and popped the floppy out of the drive......

Harry.

 

yeah i have the OS CD and have checked thefloppy,CD drive etc.

 

Which OS? And which service pack? And most important - is the filesystem NTFS or FAT?

If the OS CD is the only tool you have then try going into the recovery console (boot with the CD - install and 'R' when asked)

Harry.

 

Hi Harry
The OS CD is WinXP Service Pack 1 the filesystem is NTFS

 

Hi if you have access to any other xp computer you can copy the ntldr file from the c: drive to a floppy and use the floppy to boot the computer. Then copy the ntldr file to the c: drive then you should be ok.

 

do i have to copy to the c: drive using dos i've tried in windows and it seems to put the file in the wrong place

 

Er - how did you do this 'in windows'. By moving the drive to another machine?

When you accessed the drive in windows did the filesystem seem OK? If so then it is possible that either boot.ini has got corrupted, or you added a drive to the system that caused boot.ini to be wrong.

Harry.

 

Here you go...

http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=189400897



J.

 

pablo5150,

Which operating system are you using?

 

Boot.ini pointing to the wrong partition? Perhaps you've got a mirror, and your primary partition has failed?

 

Read a bit further down the thread! XP SP1

Harry.