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Can't boot XP after installing Vista
Boot stopped and gave error message "NTLDR is missing." Thinking I was brilliant, I copied NTLDR from a friend's PC onto CD and from CD to my root directory. Now it says "NTLDR is compressed" and (of course) I still can't boot my PC... (I'm writing this message from my Mac but I desperately need to get back on my

NTLDR wandered off and now...
However, there must be some reason why I can't boot from my CD when others can. I've selected my CD drive in bios as the boot device so I don't know "Trevor" wrote: I've been having problems with "NTLDR missing..." I've noticed several good posts regarding using the recovery console to try and fix this problem.

XP (and HD2) inaccessible after reinstalling Windows ME to HD1
RAH "Joseph" <schnyd...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:072201c34310$91e07550$a501280a@phx.gbl... Recently reformatted and reinstalled windows xp. Now it won't let me boot without the windows cd in my drive. If the cd is not present it gives me this error "NTLDR Missing CTRL + ALT + DEL to restart"

NTLDR is missing
That's not what you were after, and it's why ntldr was missing when BootMagic tried to boot part.2. Once it got installed that way, you can't easily remove Step 3: boot from XP CD, it will probably see "C:" and "D:", install XP2 to "D:". Note: "C:" is the hidden partition and is not really C: -- what appears to

NTLDR is missing error
The hard drive in the system must have been set up originally with Windows NT, Windows 2000 or Windows XP, because the message "NTLDR is missing" comes from a message: "NTLDR is missing" Any ideas what's going on here please and any fixes? Also, can anyone tell me why it is I can't boot from cd instead of floppy?

XP drive letter changed after vista install
OK", then it goes to a new line and says "NTLDR missing" then tries to boot from the CDROM with the XP disc in it. And I don't understand why it can't boot from the XP disc either. Do anyone have any suggestions for what I can do next? If I do a new install of XP thru the Recovery Console, will I lose all of my

Boot failure after AVG removed trojan horse: invalid BOOT.INI
Boot with the XP Cd and instead of pressing Enter to Install XP press "R" to repair using the Recovery Console. At the command prompt type the following and the agreement i can't press it so when i pressesc the screen goes black and say's tldr is missing and i have no idea what to do nexy -- many thanks scuzzy.

NTLDR is compressed - need help
Why couldn't you use the XP installation CD to install the OS? I trust that you're aware that you have to set your boot order in your BIOS so that the system will NTLDR is a file necessary to boot Windows. Somewhere along the line, that file got corrupt. She can try and copy over that file from another copy of

can't boot OS w/o XP CD in drive
If that works, then dig around in the BIOS and find the boot order and make it 1) HD 2) floppy 3) CD (or disable that, if that is a separate setting for you) It's also possible that XP can't boot from the disk for some reason. The most common reason involves an error message about NTLDR missing, but you didn't

XP won't boot, says "NTLDR is Missing"
I used the CD to help install the hard drive and when I went to install Windows XP Professional I keep getting the NTLDR is missing and/or the Disk I/0 Error Why couldn't you use the XP installation CD to install the OS? I trust that you're aware that you have to set your boot order in your BIOS so that the

How's this for irony, (Hmm, ironic, that's irony!)
Now my problem is that I can't boot from the CD,because it doesn't want to it. Some other suggestions???? I copy the ntldr on a floppy and tried to let him Now I did it I get the message NTLDR missing. I've copy the ntldr file from my laptop to a diskette I tried to let the desktop read it but it won't. Can

Unable to reinstall XP
It's a Windows NT error obviously, can get the same thing in 2003 when your machine can't boot... Could be due to overclocking error, but more likely you have a virus or a Attempting to load win xp +/or win2000 rec. same error message???? NTLDR is missing! Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance Paul.

My buddy is a goose! Deleted i386 files! in XP Pro....
On startup, I am getting the message "ntldr is missing". My son thinks he moved the file to another folder when he was moving his own files! I have the XP re-installation disc, and have got as far as the prompt for Administrator Password in the Repair menu, but I can't remember what it is.

NTLDR missing
I can't boot because it says that I'm missing the ntldr. I really don't know what to do and none of the solutions I've found on the net seem to work. And for some reason, my cdrom won't detect a boot record from any of my installation cds (ie - win 95, win98, or now, even the xp cd). Any help on this matter would

ntldr is missing
WAW al@no_spam_npgsystems.com microsoft public windowsxp general Following Rick's suggestion, the /add did not find any system to add except the XP. Further, on the next boot the message NTLDR missing appeared. Following the instructions suggested in KB 315233 I copied ntldr and ntdtect.sys from the XP CD to the c

NTLDR is compressed - need help
xenomorph x...@y.com microsoft public windowsxp general I created a slipstreamed CD as per the instructions from Tacktech and included the boot image file too. The problem is that I can't BOOT from the CD. Autoplay works, CD boot doesn't - I get a message saying that NTLDR is missing, when the 229 kb file is very much

NTLDR missing, dual boot XP in selection, cannot remove
I turned on my labtop tody and received the following error message: "NTLDR is missing....Press any key to continue" As a result, the operating system doesn't boot up. 3) I don't have an internal floppy drive. Can I boot up the machine using an external floppy drive or do I need to use the CD Rom drive?

clean install winxp
Jet j...@jetmail.com microsoft public windowsxp general NTLDR is the NT boot loader file and is important and needed (as you found out). I think your gonna need the xp cd's cause if your drive is ntfs you won't be able to see it with a dos boot disk and therefore can't copy the needed file over. The xp cd will

Can't boot with out cd
Re-extract the file "NTLDR" from XP CD. Set pc boot sequence (in BIOS) to boot from CD first--- Boot from XP CD --- then get into Recovery OK tried this managed to find the NTLDR and NTdetect files on my working machine - BUT can't find the boot.ini file - no matter what search I carry out ( having unhidden

new bios/motherboard with old hard drive
I have a similar problem with SATA and XP. I can't get the XP installation CD to boot if I configure the BIOS so that a SATA drive is the first drive in the list of hard drives to boot from. (After the "Setup is examining your hardware configuration" message, XP setup hangs.) My system uses an Abit IC7-Max2