ntldr missing

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I recently tried to install a second hard drive in an older PII system. Neither drive was being detected by the BIOS and I changed something in setup. I later figured out that the cable had come loose and was able to detect the main drive again, but I get an error message that ntldr is missing. I put the drive in my own PC as a second drive, checked it over with Norton utilities and there are no problems with the drive and ntldr is present. It has Windows XP on it, I believe Professional edition, but I don't have the installation disk available. Is this a BIOS configuration problem, a master boot record problem, or something else? Any suggestions?

 

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/sapo/ said:

I recently tried to install a second hard drive in an older PII system. Neither drive was being detected by the BIOS and I changed something in setup. I later figured out that the cable had come loose and was able to detect the main drive again, but I get an error message that ntldr is missing. I put the drive in my own PC as a second drive, checked it over with Norton utilities and there are no problems with the drive and ntldr is present. It has Windows XP on it, I believe Professional edition, but I don't have the installation disk available. Is this a BIOS configuration problem, a master boot record problem, or something else? Any suggestions?

NTDLR...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;318728
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/windowsxp_tips.htm#ntldr
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/N/NTLDR.html

Try this. Boot to the XP CD. When it asks you if you want to install or
Repair, choose Repair.
This will take you to the Recovery console. Choose the XP install to log
into, usually there's
only 1, and enter the password when prompted. For Home, the default
password is blank.
At the C:\Windows prompt type the following commands

1) FIXBOOT, answer Yes
2) CD \
3) ATTRIB -H NTLDR
4) ATTRIB -S NTLDR
5) ATTRIB -R NTLDR
6) ATTRIB -H NTDETECT.COM
7) ATTRIB -S NTDETEC.COM
8) ATTRIB -R NTDETECT.COM
9) COPY X:\I386\NTLDR C:\
10) COPY X:\I386\NTDETECT.COM C:\

In steps 9 and 10, X is the letter of your CD-Rom drive.