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ntldr
That's WEIRD! I can't argue with success, but I see not reason at all why it should have worked. NTLDR and Win98 are not related at all. Every time it starts up it says "NTLDR is missing. CTRL ALT DEL to restart". System will only boot from the XP CD. I've searched the knowledge base and it has this problem

NTLDR missing, Boot order Freezes
(2) As to CD, you can make boot-CD-RW by Roxio Cd Creator or Sonic CD-RW Burner Software (with CD-RW Unit) ( You need to copy ntdect.com, ntldr, 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.

Unbootable computer. ERROR="NTLDR is missing"
I have moved my hard drives, loaded with XP Home, to a different machine after the old pc's mob got fried! When I boot up, all drives including the cd-r and dvd-r are recognized and I get the error. I put the install cd into the cd-r drive and I can't boot to it to do whatever I need to do to get the machine

Boot.Ini and recovery Console
Since you can't boot into the OS to get to Device Manager to delete the EIDE controllers, I'd say it's time for a complete reinstall. My problem is that everything seems to work, but when it boots it returns NTLDR missing. I can see my windows installation and after putting my XP cd in and trying the repair

NTLDR error
... general Mike wrote: What does it mean ntldr is missing...and why could it show up...and how can i fix it...i can't load anything on it That is the initial boot Boot the XP CD and, instead of Setup, take the immediate R for Repair. Assume any password requested is blank, and TAB over. If X is the CD drive's

Can't boot. NTLDR missing
S.Sengupta ssengup...@msn.com microsoft public windowsxp general Hello Sue, see:- 'You Receive an "NTLDR Is Missing" Error Message When You Start Your console to fix the problem. boot XP CD, run the Recovery Console and from the command prompt, run: Copy X:\I386\ntldr C:\ remove the CD and restart the machine.

built new system
I don't know what you did or what purpose you had but assuming your brand new e machine was the computer on which the hard drive was originally install, you can fix this as follows: Assuming your system is set to boot from the CD-ROM drive and you have an actual XP CD as opposed to a recovery CD, boot with the XP

NTLDR missing error -can't boot
After I have upgraded from Windows ME, my system crashed (this was after a few months with Windows XP). I can't boot my PC even to safe mode! I always get the message, "NTLDR is missing", or "Himem.sys" is missing (and so on!). Hopeless, I tried to boot my computer using a Windows 98 CD then manually deleted the

NTLDR missing
Day 4 it booted to a black screen with "NTLDR is missing", press Cntl-Alt-Del to restart, which just loops back to the same black screen+message, it never restarts. I can boot from the XP CD and get into the choices to go to Recovery Console or Setup, I choose setup (RecConsole takes me to the admin password

Unable to Boot up
A friend asked me to have a look at his computer because it wouldn't boot and gave the message "NTLDR is missing. Press ctrl, alt, del to restart your computer". I booted from the XP CD and used the Win XP Pro Recovery Console, going through restoring the NTLDR and ntdetect.com files, then repairing and even

NTLDR is missing
Take the XP CD out of the cd drive and reboot into XP normally. -- Will Denny MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User Please reply to the News Groups "Eric G" <Er...@ether.net> wrote in message news:40ee305b.11550540@news1.on.sympatico.ca... Can't boot my notebook. Getting "NTLDR is missing." Can boot to a floppy or CD but

NTLDR is Missing
Kurt anonym...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsxp hardware Just built a PC and can't boot XP Home CD....says "NTLDR is missing, Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart". Now what?

NTLDR missing - problem again 2nd
You need NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM and BOOT.INI in your C:\ directory for XP to load. You can copy ntldr and ntdetect.com from the i386 directory on the xp cd. NTLDR is missing Press any key to restart and when I do, I just get the same message. I'm having to use another computer to write this now :-( Steve David

error message "unmountable_boot_volume"
Remove the floppy disk and let it boot, if you set in bios : a,c,scsi or scsi,a,c. Save it then exit. After booting up, Windows2000 will appear and welcome you. I know this because sometimes I forgot to take floppy disk out during booting, it says "NTLDR is missing" and I looked at the PC case, and the floppy

GRUB and Windows XP
Tried to boot with ME Rescue Disk and got "NTLDR is missing" message. Cannot boot to either OS at all. Any help very much appreciated!!! Lorne [Originally sent earlier today but was not posted as a new post. Sorry for the dupe!] Try booting from the XP CD. Run the Recovery Console. Type "fixmbr" and "fixboot" (in

New WinXP Install 2nd boot says NTLDR is missing Kludge Fixup
This morning, on bootup, black screen before BIOS display: NTLDR is missing. Can't boot up, 1. Why, out of nowhere, does this happen? 2. How to fix it? Here is how it goes: Win2000 boot disk - Format a floppy disk on some other Win2000/XP PC. Don't do it on a Win9x PC - it won't work.

NTLDR missing error -can't boot
... commands (pressing <Enter> after each): CD \ ATTRIB -C NTLDR John John wrote: A friend asked me to have a look at his computer because it wouldn't boot and gave the message "NTLDR is missing. Press ctrl, alt, del to restart your computer". I booted from the XP CD and used the Win XP Pro Recovery Console,

NTLDR is missing
Tried the boot disk at the link you gave me. Didn't work. Same dead end as using the Windows XP CD recovery console. Suggestions? 5. Removed CD, turned pc off, tried another reboot. 6. Now have the error message "NTLDR is missing". At this point, I have tried EVERYTHING that I can think of.

NTLDR is missing after running Norton Ghost???
Either that or you have a drive configuration problem in BIOS, Master/Slave jumpers, cables, or something so that the boot image can't find the CD. But upon reboot I got the same 'NTLDR is missing' error.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx So I gave up! I removed all references to Xp using the fdisk /mbr and sys c

Dual boot using XP & ME
<anonym...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3bb401c3fe5d$dc5b7220$a501280a@phx.gbl... Tnx but I can't get passed the ntldr is missing to boot, this driving me crazy. -----Original Message----- You need to boot from the XP CD. It has all the tools to partition and format your drive, then install XP.