NTLDR missing? help!

[csp1]

Hi all,
i was just doing a fresh install of xp-pro today, and im getting an error message when trying to boot up,
it says NTLDR is missing and that i have to restart.

Does any1 know what it means?

[Bovon]

Hello, you may find your answer in one of the following threads.

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthre...hreadid=131556
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthre...hreadid=140266
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthre...hreadid=137166
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthre...hreadid=134666
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthre...hreadid=133497
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthre...hreadid=109334

[Swordfish]

Boot with the XP pro CD and use 'Recovery Console', after this you should do a 'FIXBOOT'.

[gjimene2]

yep, just enter the recovery console, on the menu where it gievs you the options to make a new installation, repair an installation, or to quit the installation, select to repair an installation.

You will enter a dos enviroment.

Select the installation of winxp, and give the administrator password, if none was set, then just hit enter, the password is a blank field.

type in fixboot, and hit Y and enter.

While you're at it, type in fixmbr, again hit Y

that way you will fix your boot problems and fix the master boot record if it is corrupt.

It won't hurt the system.


Good Luck.

[stix_kua]

gjimene2 has got it...

[gjimene2]

Swordfish beat me to it, I just gave it a more detailed description.

If this is a used drive, I always recomend on using the utilites to check out he drive, look at it's sectors for corruption, and then writting zeros to it. For a 60gb hard drive it would take about 40 minutes to an hour to max.

[csp1]

1 thing i never mentioned was that my system files are on a scsi hard drive,

[csp1]

i tried the fixboot thing, but it never worked

[BipolarBill]

Is there a non-bootable floppy in the drive? If so, remove it.

[AllGamer]

i agree with BILL that's the #1 source of problem

then if that's not the case, well what the others has pointed about FIXBOOT will help to repair a current install

BUT ..... SINCE you are going to make a brand new INtallation, then BOOT from the XP CD

and remove anything on the FD drive

[BipolarBill]

It's funny how fast these "NTLDR" threads die after you mention the floppy.

I suspect that it's a bit embarrassing.

[stix_kua]

Originally posted by BipolarBill
It's funny how fast these "NTLDR" threads die after you mention the floppy.

I suspect that it's a bit embarrassing.

A sad fact was once, I had this prblem and I foudn outit was a floppy thanks to an associate ((non SysOpt member) at the time Iwas not a SysOpt member either, just a reader at times) but anyways, he told me that it was the floppy disk. I took out the floppy and smashed it to bits but realized later that it had some very important documents on it. I nearly jumped out of the window but realized that I had backups on my hard drive.

i later went back to the drive, took it out and smashed it too...then i spat at it and laughed as I sat in the corner shivering....

[Swordfish]

you guys still use floppy drives....its been ages since i used mine.

its better to have a bootable cd instead, isn't it.

[Bovon]

Originally posted by Swordfish
you guys still use floppy drives....its been ages since i used mine.

its better to have a bootable cd instead, isn't it.

To each his own. As long as the motherboard has floppy controllers and I have a case large enough to have a floppy drive, I will keep one installed. If I put everything on a CD, I gotta go find the dang thing...its a pain to keep a written log of which CD has what utility on it. Some things get backed up pretty often, like the email address book, favorites...certain emails etc. These small byte items are better archived on a floppy and in a small diskette container nearby.

[stix_kua]

My last floppy drive was the one I smashed...my next build.....coming soon will not have a floppy drive but it will have a 6 in1 card reader...