NTLDR MIssing. Press anykey

[mpm]

Hi,

I used Acronis Disc Director to add a new partition to my T21 with Win 2000
Pro. When I
re-booted, I get the message ' NTLDR Missing. Press any key '.

Can anyone help me in resolving this problem ?

TIA,
MPM

 

[Michal Drewniak]

Most likely your boot.ini file had been modified. Run recovery console
and use BOOTCFG to edit your boot.ini file to point into right partition
(probably partition 1 but it depends on how you had your partitions
configured earlier).

You should be able to start Recovery Console from your boot CD by
selecting recovery options. You will need Administrator password to
access it.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Try creating a boot disk. For the floppy to successfully boot Windows 2000
the disk must contain the "NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on a Windows
2000 machine, not a DOS/Win9x, so the NT boot sector gets written to the
floppy), and copy Windows 2000 versions of ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini
to it. Edit the boot.ini to give it a correct ARC path for the machine you
wish to boot. Below is an example of boot.ini. The default is to start the
operating system located on the first partition of the primary or first
drive (drive0). Then drive0 partition 2 and so on.

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000 0,1"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000 0,2"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000 1,1"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000 1,2"

Another possibility is to try loading the controller driver also from
floppy. For the floppy to successfully boot Windows 2000 the disk must
contain the "NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on a Windows 2000 machine,
not a DOS/Win9x, so the "NT" boot sector gets written to the floppy), then
copy ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini to it. Edit the boot.ini to give it a
correct ARC path for the machine you wish to boot.

In order for this to work you'll want to change the arc path in boot.ini
from multi syntax to scsi syntax to indicate that Windows 2000 will load a
boot device driver and use that driver to access the boot partition. Then
also copy the correct manufacturer scsi driver to the floppy but renamed to
ntbootdd.sys


Something like this below;

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows
[operating systems]
scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000 0,1"
scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000 0,2"
scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000 1,1"
scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000 1,2"


--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Hi,
|
| I used Acronis Disc Director to add a new partition to my T21 with Win
2000
| Pro. When I
| re-booted, I get the message ' NTLDR Missing. Press any key '.
|
| Can anyone help me in resolving this problem ?
|
| TIA,
| MPM
|
|
|

 

[mpm]

Hi,

Thank you very much for the response.

I had a single partition in my T21 running W2K Pro. I used Acronis Disc
Director 9.0 to add a new partition fr data files. DD asked me if I wanted
FAT32 or NTFS and I opted for FAT32 as DD showed C: to have FAT32.

I will try to locate a W2K machine as I have only Xp Home and Xp Pro in my
current desktop and T42.

If I do a repair, will it wipe out all the data files and programmes running
under W2K ?

Cheers,
MPM

Try creating a boot disk. For the floppy to successfully boot Windows 2000
the disk must contain the "NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on a
Windows
2000 machine, not a DOS/Win9x, so the NT boot sector gets written to the
floppy), and copy Windows 2000 versions of ntldr, ntdetect.com, and
boot.ini
to it. Edit the boot.ini to give it a correct ARC path for the machine you
wish to boot. Below is an example of boot.ini. The default is to start the
operating system located on the first partition of the primary or first
drive (drive0). Then drive0 partition 2 and so on.

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000 0,1"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000 0,2"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000 1,1"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000 1,2"

Another possibility is to try loading the controller driver also from
floppy. For the floppy to successfully boot Windows 2000 the disk must
contain the "NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on a Windows 2000
machine,
not a DOS/Win9x, so the "NT" boot sector gets written to the floppy), then
copy ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini to it. Edit the boot.ini to give it
a
correct ARC path for the machine you wish to boot.

In order for this to work you'll want to change the arc path in boot.ini
from multi syntax to scsi syntax to indicate that Windows 2000 will load a
boot device driver and use that driver to access the boot partition. Then
also copy the correct manufacturer scsi driver to the floppy but renamed
to
ntbootdd.sys


Something like this below;

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows
[operating systems]
scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000 0,1"
scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000 0,2"
scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000 1,1"
scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000 1,2"


--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Hi,
|
| I used Acronis Disc Director to add a new partition to my T21 with Win
2000
| Pro. When I
| re-booted, I get the message ' NTLDR Missing. Press any key '.
|
| Can anyone help me in resolving this problem ?
|
| TIA,
| MPM
|
|
|

 

[Dave Patrick]

"I have only Xp Home and Xp Pro"

These will work fine for creating the boot floppy.

"If I do a repair, will it wipe out all the data files and programmes
running under W2K"

Depends on what you do but no not normally.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Hi,
|
| Thank you very much for the response.
|
| I had a single partition in my T21 running W2K Pro. I used Acronis Disc
| Director 9.0 to add a new partition fr data files. DD asked me if I wanted
| FAT32 or NTFS and I opted for FAT32 as DD showed C: to have FAT32.
|
| I will try to locate a W2K machine as I have only Xp Home and Xp Pro in my
| current desktop and T42.
|
| If I do a repair, will it wipe out all the data files and programmes
running
| under W2K ?
|
| Cheers,
| MPM