Can't Boot Floppy / CD Drive - Ntldr Missing
Apr 25, 2007
my hard drive will simply not boot. i am having a problem with NTLDR is missing. i have tried at least 4 different methods of fixing it. it will not boot from a floppy drive or cd. the hard drive is about a year old. i think the problem started after i used a cleaning program called PC-decrapifier.. thinking it would speed up my computer.. i would like to fix this problem asap and the hard drive isn't bad, because i can connect it to my other computer as a slave and access my files, but i still can not boot it even in another computer.
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Jun 16, 2005
I recently tried to reinstall windows xp, but the installation was interrupted and left me with a partially installed windows on my hard drive. Now, whenever I try to install again, it gives me the error: NTLDR is missing. I made a msdos boot disc to reformat my drive such that I can try installing windows again. However, I have two hard drive (one for windows and programs and one for storage) and I don't know which one is which letter. How can I find this information, so that I don't accidentally wipe my storage drive?
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Jan 28, 2008
I have taken a hitachi hdd that had xp home on it, put it solo in a machine (cuz it is larger tryin' to upgrade) that had been using & working perfectly fine with 2k pro. got a missing os error. read dozens more. own full store bought version of the afore mentioned xp. tried to boot from cd, does NOT appear to even recognize anything is in the drive. went into bios made sure cd was 1st boot, still "missin os" still doesn't see cd in drive. here is where i would like some more detail pleez, mind you i'm a beginner, yet have a keen interest in computers. now i read that computers don't like swaps of os too hot, so i pulled the xp hdd back out of the 2k machine set it up as slave in the machine i'm using now (it's actual "birth" machine) & formatted it, then deleted it from the drivers before removing it. put it back in the rig that runs 2k, now the error states "NTLDR is missing". by the way i corrected the jumpers both swaps. tried the cd again still ntlrd error. went into bios, confirmed recognition of hdd, yep pretty as a picture. does'nt formatting wipe the thing clean (for my intent & purpose)? i have to be missing a step here, i mean why won't the thing read the cd? the cd rom works, i read something about possibly not being able to boot from it though!?
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Jan 29, 2008
My moms computer had a big red X next to the C: Drive, so I ran AVG and it wouldnt work it just froze up. So I did some poking around online and found Vundo. So I ran it and it found a bunch of stuff and then deleted it all. Then when I restarted the PC I get the "NTLDR is missing, Press ctrl-alt-delete to restart" error message. So I found out how to fix that with a boot disk. Here comes problem number one. the recovery disk is HP Windows XP sp2. Im not sure if the OS is the same because the disk is from my laptop. (both are HP windows xp) So I put in the disk, hit ctrl-alt-del and press enter to boot from disk. Everything looks normal, it says windows setup, and is loading files at the bottom of the screen. At the welcome screen I press R and am taken to the recovery console. This is where it gets weird.
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Dec 28, 2006
On my pc, I had one drive with Windows 98 on it, and one drive with Windows XP on it
Windows 98 was on drive C: XP was on D: They were set up so I could choose which one to boot to at start up I wanted to get rid of the 98 entirely, so I edited the boot ini, just removing the entry for windows 98 after restarting the computer, everything was fine....going directly to XP so I wanted to format the 98 drive so I could use it as additional storage, which I did using norton partition magic, I then shut down my computer......turned it back on.....and I get an error saying: NTLDR is missing.
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Aug 30, 2007
It started with the NTLDR is missing error,so I load the recovery console and prepare to copy it to the drive when I notice ALL the boot files are missing, in fact every file on the root of C drive is gone.So I make a boot disk from my lap top copy the boot files to the disk and give this a try. Boots fine and seems to run perfect. Copy the boot files to the C drive, reboot numerous times, all good so I go home, leaving him the boot disk and showing him what to do just in case.
Next day same thing, What we seem to have determined is that the files seem to disappear later in the evening. I had him run all the pgms he normally does for a good while, quit the pgm and check C. The files are still there. after a few hours of fooling around he leaves PC on and goes watch TV. Comes back about 11:00pm to turn off PC, checks C drive and they're gone again. He re copies the files, shuts down and goes to bed.Next day PC boots fines before work, after work etc... BUT some time later in the evening it happens again.
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Jan 19, 2006
i booted up my other PC the other day and it wouldn't boot. i got the message 'missing NTLDR file press ctl-alt-del to reboot, and when i do the same message appears. i'm running a gen windows XP home OS.
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May 16, 2005
I re-did my pc, i have multiple partitions and multiboot. 2 partitions have win xp one for normal usage and one to test out apps. Everything installed fine both work. But when i boot my machine unless i have the WinXP Cd in the CDrom i get ntldr missing. if i have the cd in its boots fine. i thing i can do to fix this?
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Mar 16, 2008
I have stupidly moved some files on my C drive that my pc requires to boot up. Now i can't get it to boot at all and can't get into safe m I am getting the NTLDR missing, press ctrl + alt + delete to restart.I have looked on google and can't seem to get it fixed.
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Dec 24, 2008
I attached a hard drive as a slave to my computer and I went to command prompt and formatted the drive using format d:.When I put the hard drive back into another computer as the master drive, I get an error message saying "NTLDR is missing" in command prompt. I tried to search on google, but I can only find solutions for systems that already have Windows installed on it.I changed the boot device priority in the BIOS, but I still couldn't get the Windows XP to boot.
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Apr 12, 2005
I have a 4 yr old second machine that is running windows 98(fat32) and I wanted to install XP on it. So I'm thinking ok I need to repartition it and make it NTFS before I can put xp on it right? So I try to boot up from my XP cd and it gives me a error saying
cd boot: couldn't find ntldr , I've tried to boot up on 2 other Original XP cds and I get the same error.
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Nov 19, 2008
PC (XP) wont boot, says NTLDR missing.I wonder if anyone could give me any advice about how to salvage my firefox bookmarks from my system which wont even boot. (the bookmarks are all i need to salvage from the c drive as my downloads files and documents are safely stored on my 2nd hard drive) My home PC (windows XP) died a death the other day playing up, wont boot now, says ntldr is missing, wont even boot up in safe mode, it doesnt get as far as giving me an option. (tried swopping cables around and stripped bare to the basics needed to boot but no such luck there either). Boots up with a unix live disc but i noticed it cant detect the c drive on the system, altho it does in bios.
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Aug 19, 2005
I keep noticing that my floppy drive would activate when I'd go to log onto the computer or turn it off. I disabled the A drive and since then things are kind of going the way it was when I first bought this computer. I did manage to check the areas that were mentioned before. I found nothing that came close to what was mentioned to look for.Did I manage to contain this thing in the floppy? I still want it off of my computer.
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Aug 23, 2005
Just got a new computer with Gigabyte GA-K8SNC-939 Motherboard. The problem is that on each boot , and shutdown, the floppy drive is accessed (i.e. motor runs ).The floppy drive is NOT selected as a boot option in the bios and the access on boot comes just after the 'Loading Personal Settings" screen. On shutdown it is just before the end , not immediately on shutdown.I seem to remember there was a Floppy Seek setting somewhere in Windows at one time, but I can't seem to find it in XP SP 2. As it happens well into the boot cycle, I don't think it's related to the motherboard.
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Oct 13, 2005
computer that has two hard drives and a different os on both hard drives. 1 Drive has windows 2000 pro, and the other has xp home. It was configured so that on boot up, there would be a choice of which operating system to boot into, though I do not know which drive was giving this choice. At this point when I boot, I get the error message "ntldr is missing press any key to restart". I have changed the boot order in the bios to see if it will boot from the other hard drive, and I get the same results.
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Feb 14, 2009
I initially had a problem with my xp which came up with a missing Hal.dll file and wouldnt boot. I tried using the xp recovery disc and eventually tried using Fixboot, thinking (foolishly?) that this is would help fix it. It now gives me a NTLDR error... Any suggestions as to how to fix this, have even tried slaving it externally but it only shows up a small completely empty drive at the moment, either 10mb or 10gb cant really remember,
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Mar 11, 2008
I am trying to set up a new computer and am using a HD that I formatted with my other PC so it would be empty. I am trying to install windows on the HD and I get the error NTLDR is missing.
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Nov 30, 2004
Im getting a new hard drive to replace one that failed. My OS is on the old drive but I want to move the OS to the new drive (b/c it will be clean and free of spyware and such...I want a clean install) when i recieve it. If i install the OS on the new one (which I will designate as the master drive), and i boot up, (then delete it from the old drive) will my computer get 'confused'? How should I go about doing this? I dont want to lose any of the data on the 'old' OS drive so I'm scared to remove Windows from it.
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Jan 26, 2006
I deleted some base files on my C: the files were not in a folder just right on my root C:well i hit restart and now when my computer wont boot. it says."NTLDR is MISSING.. press CTRL + ALT + DEL to restart."well i went to this website.
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Jul 5, 2005
My son has phoned me. In spite of loads of precautions he is in trouble again.Three months ago his Mesh desktop gave him the thumbs down when his Maxtor 160Gb failed. he bought another and another copy of XP Home because he couldn't put his hand on the first one (money to burn).HD1 has been formatted and set upo with an installation of XP in reserve. His usual copy is on the new Maxtor, HD0. I understand that all of his data is held in separate partition and that he has a backup of his O/S using Acronis True Image v8, and a bootable rescue CD. Hid HD0 failed and he tried to format it to restore his backup. No go.Now he can't get his XP on HD1 to boot. His rescue CD won't boot.His True Image install disk which can be a rescue disk won't boot andall he gets on POST is "NTLDR is missing".
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Oct 9, 2006
My computer started this last night,after power beening off for a while.NTLDR is missing ctrl+alt+del to restart.I can't get my recovery disk to work,it quits after about 5 min.Sometimes the dvd burner won't open,so i can get it out.I gave up on it after a while.It so nerve racking.Hope someone can help me,its my kids computer.
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Jan 14, 2006
I recently reinstalled XP Pro on my computer. There's usually no problems but now after the install, if I set the bios to boot from my hard drive I get the message NTLDR (or something near) Is missing press ctrl alt del to reboot. I do this and the same thing happens.
However, if Iset it to boot from CD and then ignore the "press any key to boot from CD" MEssage it then skips and boots files
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Jun 9, 2005
Computer is an HP pavilion notebook zd7000. XP Pro. HP recovery does not seem to be an option on this notebook. I did have this pc in for repair once before as user loves to download music, etc.. and I do remember having to load format and load from the xp cd.
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Apr 9, 2008
I have had the following error message appear when i start my PC NTLDR Missing, When i press ctl alt del to restart the same things happens and i go around in circles. I have put the XP disk in to hopefully boot from that but the PC will not pick up the disk and start from it. I have looked in the bios to change where the system is looking but still no joy, can anyone else point me in the right direction?.
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Apr 11, 2005
I just built a new pc started installing xp it was almost finished formatting the drive I walked away and pc was off now it keeps coming up missing NTLDR please push cntrl,alt,delete to reset. I reset and can get to bios but can't get anything else to happen when i try to start the pc
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Aug 6, 2007
I was getting the message "ntldr is missing-press any key to restart". I was able to fix that through trail and error. After I restarted my computer I got the message "disc error". Would someone be able to help out. I am running Windows XP.
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Mar 11, 2010
I have an older laptop in which the hard drive and broken on, I was hoping to fix it so that my in-laws could use it to keep in touch with family via Skype. So...I purchsed a new 20gb hard drive and fitted it yesterday. The laptop booted up ok but after the Bios screen displayed an error message of "ntldr is missing press ctrl, alt, delete to restart" When I rebooted with my Windows XP cd in it's gets just past the Bios screen and then displays some errors in French! The jist of these errors I think is that the boot.ini file could not be found. I tried to reboot but I still get another error message in french! From what I can see it does not say anything about boot.ini this time though. I have also tried a XP Recovery Console Repair to no avail either and have exhausted everything I know. what I need to do to install XP onto this HDD (it has been formatted too)? Any explanation on why the messages are in French? Also one thing to mention is that when I manage to boot with XP Live CD and use Command Prompt the letters I type on the keyboard come out all wrong ie. : comes out as * and m comes out as 0
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Apr 2, 2006
Everything was fine last night when i was on my computer but when i woke up this morning and booted her up i recieved the "NTLDR is missing" error message with instructions to use control+alt+delete to restart and try again. I have not recently installed any new hardware or changed configurations and the only new software is Diablo2 and its expansion which has been on my computer for a week now (its run fine in the past and never caused any problems). I've been reading through the forums for most of the day and tried several different suggestions to fix my problem but to no avail. I've tried using a boot disk i made off of a friend's computer, rebuilding the boot record using the recovery console, and i even tried that NTLDR "fixer" disk that i downloaded from a link i frequently see posted. Nothing has worked. The only interesting thing is that when i use that fixer program (the one that gives you 10 boot options and you have to go through every one to find one that works) is that instead of getting a missing NTLDR message, i get a hal.dll error instead! So i go back into my XP cd and expand the hal.dll into the system32 folder on my drive and try again but now i'm back to the NTLDR error!
I really dont know what to do here and any help is appreciated! Also, i'm not tp sure how vital this is but my drive is labeled D: although it is the only HDD in my computer, when i try to use the recovery console i only have one option for an OS to explore and it is labeled C:. I'm not sure if how this happened is important to my current situation but i can explain it if necessary. Again, any suggestions here would be a big help and hope to hear from you soon. Oh, formating is also out of the quesion as i have no backups of my current papers, projects, and other data.
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Jul 11, 2008
I was on my computer yesterday when there was a power surge. My operating system is windows XP. Since this happened my computer won't restart properly, I get this message:
NTLDR is missing press ctrl + alt + del to restart I have done some research to figure out.
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Feb 28, 2009
Evening all I am attempting to create a boot CD slipstreaming SP2. I have an original XP cd and I need to integrate SP2 into it so it will recognize my new Seagate 1T HD. After following all the instructions from http://www.helpwithwindows.com/Win [...] ootcd.html using IsoBuster and CDBurnerXP when I attempt to boot to the CD it says the NTLDR is missing. I open the CD (on another pc) and confirmed the file contained the ntdet and ntldr. I am not good with this type of stuff and am looking for some suggestions on what I should do at this point. My ultimate goal is to simply load XP on my new 1T hard drive.
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Dec 30, 2004
I know there is already a thread out there for this error. However, it is not solving my problem. My 160 Western Digital HDD is brand new. After the very first partition, OS install, and boot the system went to the "Windows is starting set up" blue screen. It hung up there. 10 minutes later I shut off the system and tried to boot from the HDD. This yielded the NTLDR error. Repartitioning with XP and reinstalling the OS ON A DIFFERENT COMPUTER worked. Hooking it up to my computer and booting from the HHD resulted in an "Operating system is missing error". Re-booting from the XP CD took me to the "Windows is starting set up" blue screen. a few seconds later the screen went blank. No windows start up screen, nothing I Can't get to the recovery console.
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