NTLDR missing

chrissss · 20 Dec 2008 at 21:00

So here it goes. my brother bought a new motherbaord and cpu, installed it all fine.

Now he installed his old windows on his 750gig, and it kept crashing, because it was a dodgy version...

Today he bought vista ultimate, wants to install it, and keeps getting NTLDR missing before he can even instal vista. He now has no clue what to do now.

Any ideas or more info you need?

asim18 · 20 Dec 2008 at 21:02

chrissss said:
keeps getting NTLDR missing before he can even instal vista.

Once you ACTUALLY install vista, It'll dissapear and you'll boot up fine. lol/

Snakedoctor · 20 Dec 2008 at 21:03

chrissss said:
So here it goes. my brother bought a new motherbaord and cpu, installed it all fine.

Now he installed his old windows on his 750gig, and it kept crashing, because it was a dodgy version...

Today he bought vista ultimate, wants to install it, and keeps getting NTLDR missing before he can even instal vista. He now has no clue what to do now.

Any ideas or more info you need?

You need to set in BIOS to boot from DVD to begin the install process. It should be in boot order or similar.

Kobrakai · 20 Dec 2008 at 21:04

1. Go into the BIOS and set your CD drive as the first boot device.
2. Save and restart.
3. When it asks to boot from CD, press any key.

Daegan · 20 Dec 2008 at 21:30

Or just leave the bios as is and hit F12 (or whatever the post screen tells you) to choose the boot device.

Obviously if it's a new mobo there are other reasons to go into the bios though.

chrissss · 21 Dec 2008 at 13:22

Well I fixed the problem, but all the things you reccomended didnt work.

thanks anyways.

I fixed it using a program ( hard disk low level format tool setup its called) that removes everything from the harddrive, even files a format doesn't remove. it took 4 hours and then I put it back in the PC and it would work.

If you get this error, it means that there is a file on your harddrive telling your pc that there is something installed, which is why it won't boot or let you install windows.

Dano · 21 Dec 2008 at 13:37

chrissss said:
If you get this error, it means that there is a file on your harddrive telling your pc that there is something installed, which is why it won't boot or let you install windows.

ntldr is the NT Loader files for windows, if you got that error then you have failed to get the system to boot from the optical drive, be it through user error or disc incompatabilities.

Or you had a floppy disk still in the drive.

Kobrakai · 21 Dec 2008 at 13:45

Dano said:
ntldr is the NT Loader files for windows, if you got that error then you have failed to get the system to boot from the optical drive, be it through user error or disc incompatabilities.

This.