Bootup Problem

[robkas]

Whenever i restart my computer and don't have the windowsXP disc in the cd/dvd drive it goes to the black and says "Missing NTLDR....press CTRL ALT DELETE to restart"

i just reformatted, but this has never happened before.

 

[KeithTalent]

See this thread that I started to see if there is anything useful for you:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=34&threadid=1916099&enterthread=y

 

[robkas]

alright thanks , i'll look into it.

if i can't figure out how to fix it i'll just unistall my old harddrive i just put in because i knwo that will fix it

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: robkas


i just reformatted, but this has never happened before.

Is there even an OS on the drive?

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I don't believe that's correct... Sometimes Vista's bootloader fvcks up for me and then when I select XP, it will tell me NTLDR is missing... what the problem was, was that Vista simply didn't reference my XP partition properly, so I went into Vista and fixed up its pathetic bootloader so it referred to the right partition. Voila!

If you have NTLDR problems, probably your boot manager is really fvcked up. The link you showed is probably someone running unstable components (hence 1 stick, bios flash, etc etc)

 

[robkas]

Originally posted by: rudder

Originally posted by: robkas


i just reformatted, but this has never happened before.

Is there even an OS on the drive?

i just installed xp on my sata drive and it boots up fine when the windows CD is in the drive, but when the windows CD isn't in the drive it gives me the NTLDR missing

and i'm posting on the forums off of this computer haha

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: robkas

Originally posted by: rudder

Originally posted by: robkas


i just reformatted, but this has never happened before.

Is there even an OS on the drive?

i just installed xp on my sata drive and it boots up fine when the windows CD is in the drive, but when the windows CD isn't in the drive it gives me the NTLDR missing

Did you copy the NTLDR manually over to your drive? Sometimes the file becomes corrupted or does not get copied over correctly by the boot disc. Try the NTLDR fix I linked to in the thread I mentioned above, or do it manually yourself.

 

[corkyg]

This is a common fault, and is threaded at least once a month. Just Google NTLDR Missing and there are lots of solutions. Mainly, the MS KB will suggest that you often need to reset your BIOS after making HDD changes, etc.

 

[Pakman]

Wow, I have the same problem... Ever since I reinstalled Windows XP, my PC will give me the NTLDR missing error message. But if I have my Windows XP CD in the drive while the PC is booting, Windows boots up fine. I'm gonna try resetting my bios to see if that fixes anything.

 

[Pakman]

Welp, resetting the bios seemed to have fixed the problem.

 

[Blain]

It's an NTLDR winter.

 

[Seekermeister]

Run CHKDSK /R in the Recovery Manager.

 

[Bozo Galora]

Originally posted by: Blain
It's an NTLDR winter.

Yeah, 3 ntldr topics in one day - all on wrong forum of course

 

[Bozo Galora]

Originally posted by: Pakman
Welp, resetting the bios seemed to have fixed the problem.

um, "restting the bios" is unclear to me, does that just mean discharging cmos?

 

[Brian48]

Typically, whenever I see this message of late, it's because Windows is trying to boot from the wrong partition. I'd check the boot.ini file to make sure that it doesn't think the CD drive is the correct drive to boot from.