NTLDR is missing..?

Virdi · 13 Mar 2006 at 07:13

Morning peeps.

I turned on my PC this morning and windows does not load.

I just get 'NTLDR is missing - Press any key to restart' - whilst the system is trying to boot?

The system was running fine all day yesterday....?

Can it be fixed?

Thanks

dirtydog · 13 Mar 2006 at 07:26

http://www.google.co.uk/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=NTLDR is missing - Press any key to restart

Simmy · 13 Mar 2006 at 09:09

Did you do any overclocking yesterday? I've had this message before when I pushed things a bit too far.

nade · 13 Mar 2006 at 09:17

Checked if there is a floppy or bootable cd in the PC?

Whitewater · 13 Mar 2006 at 10:08

If your running Windows XP you can boot from the CD and repair the installation.

geeza · 13 Mar 2006 at 11:32

Whitewater said:
If your running Windows XP you can boot from the CD and repair the installation.

i tried this and it doesnt work. if youve overclocked too much i think it corrupts windows. ive done this many a time and all you can do is reformat. worst case scenario is that the drive wont be able to be formatted as it will be corrupt so you will have to buy another drive

Simmy · 13 Mar 2006 at 11:41

geeza said:
i tried this and it doesnt work. if youve overclocked too much i think it corrupts windows. ive done this many a time and all you can do is reformat. worst case scenario is that the drive wont be able to be formatted as it will be corrupt so you will have to buy another drive

:\ Whenever I used to get this message, all I had to do was put the CPU back to default settings and it would boot into windows no problem. Fingers crossed you won't have to re-install windows

geeza · 13 Mar 2006 at 11:50

on my old system i could not run prime for over about 5 seconds. this by the way is not advisable and will eventually knacker something up. Before i sold it i tested it all at stock and it seemed fine. even primed for 2 days! generic pc133 memory was never designed to be overclocked i dont think

Goksly · 13 Mar 2006 at 12:35

I got this when bios had my hdds in the wrong order.

Virdi · 13 Mar 2006 at 12:52

The BIOS setting for boot device is set to this hard disk.

My overclocking hasn't changed....

Although - I have been getting some VPU Recovery errors pop up over the last couple of weeks..

Could this mean that my hard disk is on it's way out?

geeza · 13 Mar 2006 at 13:27

Virdi said:
The BIOS setting for boot device is set to this hard disk.

My overclocking hasn't changed....

Although - I have been getting some VPU Recovery errors pop up over the last couple of weeks..

Could this mean that my hard disk is on it's way out?

set your cpu to stock and see if it happens again. have you ran memtest86 for a few hours and prime95 for a few with no errors?

Virdi · 13 Mar 2006 at 17:06

I'm an idiot - I admit it!!

There was a floppy in the drive :rolleyes:

vanandjuanunited · 13 Mar 2006 at 17:07

Another reason not to have a floppy drive in your machine.

nade · 13 Mar 2006 at 22:11

Virdi said:
I'm an idiot - I admit it!!

There was a floppy in the drive

hehe oh well, glad it was something simple and didn't involve reloading

Edit: The reason i said to check that was that i've done it before.... i blame my case having a door and being unable to see the drives when i power it up of course!

crashuk · 14 Mar 2006 at 01:46

if you got xp pro install asr and then restart in safe mode just copy nt loader from xp cd to the system files on your pc

_Jimlad_ · 14 Mar 2006 at 10:36

that has happened to me a few times! damn those floppy's i once had a call out to a house that had that issue! still got £20 though!