NTLDR is missing error

[Guest]

I recently accidentally deleted my NTLDR file located in my C: drive. Now,
upon rebootI receive an error stating NTLDR is missing Pres Ctrl+Alt+Del to
restart. When I restart, it goes back to this page and no further. I did a
quick search in google and found the following solution: "To resolve this
problem, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the Bcupdate2
utility." Has anyone experience this issue before? If so, how was it
resolved?

 

[Taurarian]

http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm#How to Repair the Boot Sector:
From the above address:
How to Repair the Boot Sector:
If XP won't start it may be due to a damaged boot sector or a missing or corrupt
ntldr or ntdetect.com files.
To replace damaged ntldr and ntdetect.com you can copy fresh files from the XP CD
using the COPY command. Boot with the XP CD and enter the Recovery Console (as
above). At the Command Prompt type the following (where "X" is your CD-Rom drive
letter) allowing the files to overwrite the old files
COPY X:\i386\NTLDR C:
COPY X:\i386\NTDETECT.COM C:

To repair a damaged Boot Sector at the command prompt type FIXBOOT and press Enter.
Then answer "Y"

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP\)]

In addition to Taurarian's advice in this thread you might want to check to
be sure you don't have a floppy disk in the floppy drive as booting with one
in the drive can sometimes cause this issue.