ntldr is missing error

[Bob Rothrock]

I am a technician working for a small computer firm. We
use a secondary program to copy hard drives from one drive
to another. Neither drive is native to the machine we are
using, if that os any help. Once the drive is copied and
the drive that has been copied to is put back in the
machine, it displays the error "NTLDR is missing". I have
tried everything from replacing the files ntldr and
ntdetect.com to the c drive straight from the cd to running
the fixboot command in the recovery console. Does anyone
have any other suggestions. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

 

[Guest]

remove the floppy from the drive. fine . ok .have a nicer day.

 

[xe77]

Format the destination drive in a computer running either
Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
Copy the files to the hard drive directly.
You may need to run FIXMBR from the recovery console, or
FIXBOOT to get the drive running. Don't for get to type
EXIT to restart the computer form the Recovery Console or
the changes won't be saved.

 

[Guest]

That is a problem,first, xp doesnt copy very well at all,the security measures
microsoft includes to xp make it that way,even xps XCOPY faults.The bes
bet is with any given machine,install hd,boot to xp cd,install xp,new copy,thi
way the motherboards data gets copied along with new version of xp.If you hav
one hd installed to a machine and others same model,try XCOPY,go to run
type:XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/
D: being the formatted drive set as slave to C: Also,agree to all DOS question
You can also open cmd,type:XCOPY for info

 

[Nictu]

If you cant help dont type anything.

-----Original Message-----
remove the floppy from the drive. fine . ok .have a nicer day.

.

 

[Ron Martell]

I am a technician working for a small computer firm. We
use a secondary program to copy hard drives from one drive
to another. Neither drive is native to the machine we are
using, if that os any help. Once the drive is copied and
the drive that has been copied to is put back in the
machine, it displays the error "NTLDR is missing". I have
tried everything from replacing the files ntldr and
ntdetect.com to the c drive straight from the cd to running
the fixboot command in the recovery console. Does anyone
have any other suggestions. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

1. Make certain that there is no diskette in drive A:.

2. Boot the computer from the Windows XP CDROM. Choose the Repair
(Recovery Console) option from the bootup options. When the computer
has finished loading the recovery console enter the following command:

FIXBOOT

Remove the CD and reboot the computer.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

 

[ihatemycomputer]

how exactly do you format the destination drive in a
computer running windows xp????