Term of the Day: NTLDR

[Keefe]

NTLDR

Short for NT Loader, a program loaded from the hard drive boot sector that displays the Microsoft Windows NT startup menu and helps Windows NT load.

Often a user will see the message "NTLDR is Missing" after attempting to install Windows 2000 or Windows XP, or upgrade a Windows 95-based or Windows 98-based computer to Windows 2000 or Windows XP. The message appears after the first reboot. This occurs only if Windows 95 or 98 has been installed on a drive with the FAT32 file system.

To correct the problem, the user must boot the computer with a Windows 95 or 98 Startup diskette or another bootable diskette with sys.com on it. Then, at the "A:\>" prompt, type "sys c:" and press "enter." A "System Transferred" prompt should appear and then the user must reboot the computer without the diskette.

[wizbones]

NTLDR works too if you wish to install 95 upgrade as a full install with no OS on the hard drive. Type >NTLDR at the prompt and in most cases it will let you install the 95 upgrade without having to provide a previous version for verification. Doesn't always work but most of the time it does. There other ways around this too.

I didn't post this, it just popped up on the screen SPAM:P