My son has recently un-installed World of Warcraft from his PC. When he tried
to restart he got the message "NTLDR missing. press ctrl alt del to restart".
I copied NTLDR onto the C drive from an XP disc and now the computer just
keeps switching off and back on within seconds without accessing windows. Can
anyone help please?

--
Pat

Copy from XP CD...:\i386\ntldr c:\

Copy from XP CD...:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\

Once both of these files have been successfully copied, please remove the CD
from the computer and reboot the system. This should solve your problem.
However, if the problem persists, it is possible that your system's hard
disk may have a corrupt boot sector and/or master boot record. To solve
this, you will have to enter into the recovery console that is described
above. Here you may run the fixboot and fixmbr commands.

FIXBOOT writes a new boot sector on the system partition and FIXMBR repairs
the boot partition's master boot code

peter

"torinarg" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:529D54BF-2415-4E8C-A7C0-(E-Mail Removed)...
> My son has recently un-installed World of Warcraft from his PC. When he
> tried
> to restart he got the message "NTLDR missing. press ctrl alt del to
> restart".
> I copied NTLDR onto the C drive from an XP disc and now the computer just
> keeps switching off and back on within seconds without accessing windows.
> Can
> anyone help please?
>
> --
> Pat

thanks so much, completely sorted

--
Pat


"peter" wrote:

> Copy from XP CD...:\i386\ntldr c:\
>
> Copy from XP CD...:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\
>
> Once both of these files have been successfully copied, please remove the CD
> from the computer and reboot the system. This should solve your problem.
> However, if the problem persists, it is possible that your system's hard
> disk may have a corrupt boot sector and/or master boot record. To solve
> this, you will have to enter into the recovery console that is described
> above. Here you may run the fixboot and fixmbr commands.
>
> FIXBOOT writes a new boot sector on the system partition and FIXMBR repairs
> the boot partition's master boot code
>
> peter
>
> "torinarg" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:529D54BF-2415-4E8C-A7C0-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > My son has recently un-installed World of Warcraft from his PC. When he
> > tried
> > to restart he got the message "NTLDR missing. press ctrl alt del to
> > restart".
> > I copied NTLDR onto the C drive from an XP disc and now the computer just
> > keeps switching off and back on within seconds without accessing windows.
> > Can
> > anyone help please?
> >
> > --
> > Pat
>
>
>