NTLDR

[Seeker]

Hi ... i have a full retail version of xp pro and i was
deleting some files off my computer , Well now i am not
able to load windows , Its saying that NTLDR is missing
and to press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart which i have but i
keep coming back to the same thing again that NTLDR
missing .... How can i please restore my operating system
back up again without having to reformat ??? Thanks

 

[Steve Bruce, mct]

There is a process call ASR but you would have to have created an ASR floppy
disk for such occassions.

I don't know if you have the means to do this . . . if this happened to me I
would temporarily connect the hard drive from your computer to the ide cable
on another xp computer. Boot into XP and then copy the file from the drive
that is currently running to the drive missing the file.

To see the file you have to change your view so that system files are not
hidden. ntld is in the root of your drive.

If you do this, the easiest way to connect the drive is to just use the
cables that are normally running the CD Drive.

 

[Rock]

Hi ... i have a full retail version of xp pro and i was
deleting some files off my computer , Well now i am not
able to load windows , Its saying that NTLDR is missing
and to press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart which i have but i
keep coming back to the same thing again that NTLDR
missing .... How can i please restore my operating system
back up again without having to reformat ??? Thanks

See this article:

You Receive an "NTLDR Is Missing" Error Message When You Start Your Computer
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=320397

 

[Seeker]

Hi again ... I should mention i have 2 hard drive install
on my computer ( master and slave ) Now i did remember
that i did deleted this ntldr file from my slave hard
drive and what i just done was pull the power cable off
my slave drive and i am able to load windows ... So now
my question is how can i get my slave HHD back up and
running again ??? Thanks

 

[Alex Nichol]

Hi ... i have a full retail version of xp pro and i was
deleting some files off my computer , Well now i am not
able to load windows , Its saying that NTLDR is missing
and to press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart which i have but i
keep coming back to the same thing again that NTLDR
missing ...

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.

The CD is probably seen as drive D:, in which case

COPY D:\i386\ntldr C:\

To be sure, the other file needed is
COPY D:\i386\ntdetect.com C:\

And you may have deleted boot.ini, too, so check by giving
Attrib -H -S C:\boot.ini

If it is not found, give
BootCfg /Rebuild
to make a new one