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NTLDR is missing ?

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  • 12-05-2010 10:14am
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    bbam
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    Hi, looking for some help..
    Was using my desktop yesterday when it froze..
    I rebooted but now get NTLDR is missing error.

    I've searched but cannot find my WinXP disk anywhere, just empty case !!:mad:

    Is there any other way round this error??
    Or failing that If I purchase another XP disk can I recover the error with a new disk?

    thanks


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    dMaN24
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    First the embarrasing part: Doublecheck you don't have anything that the pc could be booting from apart from the harddrive. Cdrom/floppy/secondary hdd etc.

    In case you can.. try to get a hold of a win xp-cd.
    Copy
    D:\i386\ntldr C:\ and
    D:\i386\ntdetect.com C:\

    (where "D:" is the dvd-drive. Must be copied to the rootdirectory of C:\)

    Not sure if there is any other way of solving this. But that's what google gave me. :)

    Edit: Found this also:
    http://www.tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm


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    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    Checked the "tinyempire" website and it pointed to some things to check...
    Turns out that the boot priority of my HHD's had somehow been reversed ??

    Don't know how this would have happened??

    Thanks...

    now...off to backup some files :o


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    all you need to do is change the partition that is set active

    a reinstall is not needed

    to confirm this you could make an XP windows boot disk on another XP machine
    with ntldr ntdetect.com
    and the boot.ini form your machine on it


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    Fysh
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    bbam wrote: »
    Checked the "tinyempire" website and it pointed to some things to check...
    Turns out that the boot priority of my HHD's had somehow been reversed ??

    Don't know how this would have happened??

    Thanks...

    now...off to backup some files :o

    If it's the boot priority for two separate physical hard drives, you can set this back in your BIOS - hit Del or F2 on startup and you should be able to find the relevant settings.

    If it's the boot priority on a single multi-partition drive, you can change the active partition with something like GParted.


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