"NTLDR is missing"/WinXP

[Guest]

Out of nowhere I turned computer on and got this message. It says press key
to Restart which does nothing. I reinstalled the entire XP operating system
and it appeared to be working until I restarted it and up pops this same
message again.
Thanks
Nancy

 

[David Trimboli]

Out of nowhere I turned computer on and got this message. It says press key
to Restart which does nothing. I reinstalled the entire XP operating system
and it appeared to be working until I restarted it and up pops this same
message again.

Take the floppy disk out of its drive.

No really, that's the most common cause of this message. If you haven't
got a floppy disk or CD in the machine, the computer is running through
the boot sector and unable to find the boot loader, NTLDR. Disk-checking
utilities may be in order.

David
Stardate 5724.4

 

[Guest]

Thank you - that is the 1st time I saw that msg - it usually says non-OS disk
in drive or something like that