NTLDR is missing

godinman

godinman

godinman

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Hi,

Am having a bit of trouble with my computer, on start up it comes up with the message NTLDR is missing, press any key to reboot. Nothing I can do will make it start up, and ideas what this means?

Thanks,

Chris
 
I have this problems sometimes if i have overclocked too much and i find if i disconnect all of my hard drives apart from my C drive it boots fine then i switch off and connect the others again.
 
This SOMETIMES works, if you have an xp disc, put it in and boot from it, when greeted with the first window, press 'r' to enter the repair module. Next screen select your boot partition, usually only one option, then type in 'fixboot' once that command has finished, use the 'fixmbr' command.

Once all is complete, type 'exit' then reboot the machine. As i say, this has only SOMETIMES worked for me, if that doesnt work, take out your drive, back up all valuable data, and reinstall windows.
 
eddie101 said:
This SOMETIMES works, if you have an xp disc, put it in and boot from it, when greeted with the first window, press 'r' to enter the repair module. Next screen select your boot partition, usually only one option, then type in 'fixboot' once that command has finished, use the 'fixmbr' command.

Once all is complete, type 'exit' then reboot the machine. As i say, this has only SOMETIMES worked for me, if that doesnt work, take out your drive, back up all valuable data, and reinstall windows.
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You won't need to run fixmbr as the master boot record obviously works as its looking at the boot drive to know that NTLDR isn't there.

fixboot should replace NTLDR though.
 
I had the same problem when I swapped my mobo, I gave in trying to cure it. a special boot disk of a website could get me in windows but I ended up formatting an starting again
 
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