Mobile/PDA About Us Advertise here
User User name Password  
  Not registered yet? Register here.
Lost your password? Click here. 		 
  Home   News   Guides   Downloads   Glossary   Hardware   Profiles   Forums   v4  
 Advertise at AfterDawn.com     Link to us!     Private messages     Compose a private message     List of all updated threads     Threads without replies     Search messages
Thursday 24.4.2025 / 12:54
Search AfterDawn Forums:        In English   Suomeksi   På svenska
afterdawn.com > forums > software, operating systems and more > windows - general discussion > dreaded ntldr is missing!
Show topics
 
Forums
Forums
Dreaded NTLDR is Missing!
  Jump to:
 
Posted Message
vspede
Junior Member
_ 		15. February 2006 @ 23:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I just built a computer from scratch and it took me....12 hours to get windows installed. Don't ask, its a long story and it concludes with a faulty ide cable....

Anyways, I got windows XP Pro installed but when I boot from start, it says...NTLDR is missing.

But when I restart and press F8, and click on my hard drive, it boots up fine.

Which is odd b/c in the boot priority is cd-rom, than hard driver, than nothing else.

How do I fix this?

And windows recovery is not an option.

Thanks in advance!!
[ + quote]
Friends will help you move.
Real Friends will help you move the bodies...
Advertisement
_ 		__
jremele
Member
_ 		16. February 2006 @ 04:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Have you tried using the windows repair utility on the actual xp pro disk?
[ + quote]
jremele
Member
_ 		16. February 2006 @ 04:52 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Put in your windows repair disk and let it boot off of it till it gets to the screen that says

1. Install Os(bla bla bla)
2. Exit
3. bla
4. bla

then click on install os (it will give you an option to repair from this screen(dont select that option(then tell xp setup to continue and then it should give you another option to repair windows click this one and the xp disk will scan the windows folder for corrupted or missing files and fix it.

If worst comes to worst you can use norton commander(A very old dos utility for easily copying the system files from a floppy disk to the hdd.

Update Me
[ + quote]
jremele
Member
_ 		16. February 2006 @ 04:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Here is the link to get Norton Commander

http://www.altap.cz/salam_en/norton_commander.html
[ + quote]
jremele
Member
_ 		16. February 2006 @ 04:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It will run in dos if that doesnt matter

it will run just like a windows 98 boot floppy
then copy the files you need
[ + quote]
Advertisement
_ 		__
 
_
Xian
Senior Member
_ 		16. February 2006 @ 17:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
More than likely your boot.ini is incorrect or corrupt. Thats what tells Windows where the system files are located.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311578/EN-US/
That link tells how to edit boot.ini for Windows 2000, but XP is the same.

Norton Commander won't work if booted off of a DOS or 98 disk on an NTFS file system. A Windows 98 or DOS boot disk will not read NTFS partitions so Norton Commander would not be able to read it either. NC will work fine if his filesystem is Fat32, though it still will only support 8.3 filenames.
[ + quote]

This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 16. February 2006 @ 17:24
afterdawn.com > forums > software, operating systems and more > windows - general discussion > dreaded ntldr is missing!
 

Digital video: AfterDawn.com | AfterDawn Forums
Music: MP3Lizard.com
Gaming: Blasteroids.com | Blasteroids Forums | Compare game prices
Software: Software downloads
Blogs: User profile pages
RSS feeds: AfterDawn.com News | Software updates | AfterDawn Forums
International: AfterDawn in Finnish | AfterDawn in Swedish | AfterDawn in Norwegian | download.fi
Navigate: Search | Site map
About us: About AfterDawn Ltd | Advertise on our sites | Rules, Restrictions, Legal disclaimer & Privacy policy
Contact us: Send feedback | Contact our media sales team
 
  © 1999-2025 by AfterDawn Ltd.

  IDG TechNetwork