NTLDR is Missing.....

[Guest]

Hi guys,
I've made a big mistake while 'spring cleaning' and moved the NTDETECT file,
now I get a black screen with...

NTLDR is Missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to Restart

Of course when I do that I get the same message. What a dope!!
I don't deserve any sympathy but any kind advice on how to fix this would be
greatly appreciated.
TIA
JJ

 

[John Wunderlich]

I've made a big mistake while 'spring cleaning' and moved the
NTDETECT file, now I get a black screen with...

NTLDR is Missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to Restart

Of course when I do that I get the same message. What a dope!!
I don't deserve any sympathy but any kind advice on how to fix
this would be greatly appreciated.

Boot from a BartPE CD and put the file back.
<http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/>

HTH,
John

 

[philo]

Hi guys,
I've made a big mistake while 'spring cleaning' and moved the NTDETECT
file,
now I get a black screen with...

NTLDR is Missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to Restart

Of course when I do that I get the same message. What a dope!!
I don't deserve any sympathy but any kind advice on how to fix this would
be
greatly appreciated.
TIA
JJ

no problem...

just boot from your XP cd and from the recovery console issue the command
fixboot

 

[Guest]

We've all been there and done that. It's a fairly easy fix. Microsoft has
some good information at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318728

Good luck!

 

[Guest]

Thanx for the response guys:

Ok, to cut to the quick, I'm into the Recovery console but when asked for
the password, I've never assigned one and it won't let me just press 'ENTER'.
HELP!!!
TIA
JJ

 

[philo]

Thanx for the response guys:

Ok, to cut to the quick, I'm into the Recovery console but when asked for
the password, I've never assigned one and it won't let me just press
'ENTER'.
HELP!!!
TIA
JJ

If you cannot get to the recovery console...
as a last resort you can perform a repair installation.

Instead of going to the console...when you boot with your XP cd...
just before you reinstall, you should get the option to repair an existing
XP installation...
If you take the option to repair the existing installation...
you should end up with a working system again.

You will have to reapply your windows updates...
but basically you will have your system back again

 

[Jonah]

Thanx for the response guys:

Ok, to cut to the quick, I'm into the Recovery console but when asked for
the password, I've never assigned one and it won't let me just press 'ENTER'.
HELP!!!
TIA
JJ

snip

Well somebody set a password on the built in Admin account, where did
you get the PC from? was it pre-installed? ask them what the password
is.

Have you tried "admin" or "password"?

Jonah

 

[Guest]

Hi John, I'd read through most all of the posts for this common prob and
tried all the helpful answers but to no avail. Then you quite simply hit the
nail on the head.
Your input did "exactly what it says on the can", thank you mucho grande.
JJ

 

[John Wunderlich]

Hi John, I'd read through most all of the posts for this common
prob and tried all the helpful answers but to no avail. Then you
quite simply hit the nail on the head.
Your input did "exactly what it says on the can", thank you mucho
grande. JJ

Thanks for the feedback. Glad I could help.
-- John

 

[Guest]

I have the same situation that below

 

[George]

Go here:

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm#b

Hth,

George

 

[John John]

Boot to the Recovery Console with your Windows XP cd and extract these
files from your Windows XP cd to the root of the system drive (usually
C:\). The files should also be present in the
C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386 folder, while booted to the Recovery
Console they can be copied from that folder to C:\.

After you copy the files to their proper location issue the fixboot
command on the system drive.

Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058

John

 

[PT]

I had the same experience earlier. I spent a couple of hours with someone
from India at Dell support, who finally threw up his hands and asked me to
reformat and reload. Instead, I called a local computer shop. He asked me
if I had a floppy in the floppy drive. I looked and presto - I had left one
there. Removing it resulted in a normal bootup. The local tech observed
that "everyone knows that" Apparently NTLDR is the Windows NT loader which
is the bootup program. In a default computer, WinXP first looks on the
floppy drive. If that drive is empty, it goes to the C: hard drive. But if
there's a disk in the floppy drive, WinXP searches for the NTLDR program,
fails to find it and produces the NTLDR Missing message.

 

[Kins]

Hi guys,
I've made a big mistake while 'spring cleaning' and moved the NTDETECT file,
now I get a black screen with...

NTLDR is Missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to Restart

Of course when I do that I get the same message. What a dope!!
I don't deserve any sympathy but any kind advice on how to fix this would be
greatly appreciated.
TIA
JJ

I did the same thing using Drive Erase Pro, hate >_< the instructions that
came with it. Anyways, I deleted everything on my C drive not realizing that
it meant all of the needed components to boot would also be removed. My
recovery media CD aren't working...this is on a 5yr old Averatec laptop.
Please help, I am at a loss as to what to do next.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Kins" <[email protected]>


| I did the same thing using Drive Erase Pro, hate >_< the instructions that
| came with it. Anyways, I deleted everything on my C drive not realizing that
| it meant all of the needed components to boot would also be removed. My
| recovery media CD aren't working...this is on a 5yr old Averatec laptop.
| Please help, I am at a loss as to what to do next.

Place the drive in a surrogate PC such as a "D:" drive.
On a notebook this can be done by placing the drive in a USB to IDE (or USB to SATA) drive
enclosure.

Unhide all files and copy C:\NTLDR to D:\
{ make sure the resultant file is NOT compressed }

Remove the drive and place it back in the affected computer.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I did the same thing using Drive Erase Pro, hate >_< the instructions that
came with it. Anyways, I deleted everything on my C drive not realizing
that
it meant all of the needed components to boot would also be removed. My
recovery media CD aren't working...this is on a 5yr old Averatec laptop.
Please help, I am at a loss as to what to do next.

Do you have another WinXP to which you could temporarily
connect your hard disk as a slave disk?

 

[ColTom2]

I did a similar thing and used Knoppix 5.1 bootable CD to find and move the
file back to its original location. Since it's a bootable CD your system
boots to Linux and not Windows so that you are able to move this file back
to its original location.

You might have to play with Knoppix after you boot to it to be able to find
and transfer the file, but rest assured that you can. In correcting my
problem I recall selecting the "Tree Files" or similar viewing option in
finally finding the Windows files etc. Also you might have to go into BIOS
and change your boot selection to CD-ROM where it will boot from the
bootable Knoppix CD.

You can download the Knoppix bootable CF for free
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html

There are other download sites and the above is first one that I found in a
hurry....

Hi guys,
I've made a big mistake while 'spring cleaning' and moved the NTDETECT
file,
now I get a black screen with...

NTLDR is Missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to Restart

Of course when I do that I get the same message. What a dope!!
I don't deserve any sympathy but any kind advice on how to fix this would
be
greatly appreciated.
TIA
JJ

I did the same thing using Drive Erase Pro, hate >_< the instructions that
came with it. Anyways, I deleted everything on my C drive not realizing
that
it meant all of the needed components to boot would also be removed. My
recovery media CD aren't working...this is on a 5yr old Averatec laptop.
Please help, I am at a loss as to what to do next.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I did a similar thing and used Knoppix 5.1 bootable CD to find and move the
file back to its original location. Since it's a bootable CD your system
boots to Linux and not Windows so that you are able to move this file back
to its original location.

You might have to play with Knoppix after you boot to it to be able to
find
and transfer the file, but rest assured that you can. In correcting my
problem I recall selecting the "Tree Files" or similar viewing option in
finally finding the Windows files etc. Also you might have to go into BIOS
and change your boot selection to CD-ROM where it will boot from the
bootable Knoppix CD.

You can download the Knoppix bootable CF for free
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html

There are other download sites and the above is first one that I found in
a
hurry....

I thought the OP deleted ntldr. Where should he take it from to move
it back to its original location? He doesn't have a WinXP installation CD
either . . .

 

[RJK]

just a thought...

When you say, "My recovery media CD aren't working." ...do you mean that
your system box won't boot from it ?
i.e. what's your boot order set to in bios / ...even possible that cd/dvd
drives are disabled.

regards, Richard

 

[ColTom2]

He said "I've made a big mistake while 'spring cleaning' and moved the
NTDETECT file". So I assumed from this that he moved it and not deleted it.

If he has deleted it he still should be able to copy this file from either
the WINDOWS/I386 or ServicePack Files/I386 folders and place it back.

I did a similar thing and used Knoppix 5.1 bootable CD to find and move the
file back to its original location. Since it's a bootable CD your system
boots to Linux and not Windows so that you are able to move this file back
to its original location.

You might have to play with Knoppix after you boot to it to be able to
find
and transfer the file, but rest assured that you can. In correcting my
problem I recall selecting the "Tree Files" or similar viewing option in
finally finding the Windows files etc. Also you might have to go into BIOS
and change your boot selection to CD-ROM where it will boot from the
bootable Knoppix CD.

You can download the Knoppix bootable CF for free
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html

There are other download sites and the above is first one that I found in
a
hurry....

I thought the OP deleted ntldr. Where should he take it from to move
it back to its original location? He doesn't have a WinXP installation CD
either . . .