From a newsgroup post by late Mr.Alex Nichol, Microsoft MVP:
The MBR code hands the boot on to the Active partition; the boot code in
that loads NTLDR. There are two cases:
"NTLDR not found" at all may arise because the incorrect partition has been
set as active. This can happen if you have a dual boot and have messed with
the files in that partition that boot; this is not the XP one, or have
shifted the boot to the XP partition which does not have NTLDR in it.
"NTLDR damaged" means what it says, the file is there but not working.
Either way, if you have a proper retail type XP CD, not some maker's
recovery disk:
Set the BIOS to boot CD before Hard Disk. Boot the XP CD and, instead of
Setup, take the immediate R for Repair. Assume any password requested is
blank, and TAB over. Assuming this sees the CD as D (likely) give:
COPY D:\i386\ntldr C:\
COPY D:\i386\ntdetect C:\
(a file that may also be missing)
then rebuild the boot configuration boot.ini file by
Attrib -H -R -S C:\boot.ini
(if not found skip the next line)
DEL C:\boot.ini
BootCfg /Rebuild
See also:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318728/
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkd_tro_evwd.asp
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Regards,
Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com
Can someone please help me, I have the error Missing Ntdlr and dont know how
to fix it, I am running XP Professional and can boot with the XP disk.
