Help...NTLDR missing on xp!!!!!

[vee_ess]

Why don't you try to retrieve the files from a separate CD?

[ksb]

nevermind I figured it out. Then it went to something sayng it was compressed an di figured tht out too. Thanx for the suggestion though.

[kaz]

HI, ive read all these posts but i have the added problem that my laptop is a couple of years old and unfortunately the cd drive no longer works. Is there anyway to fix this without the use of a cd, for example using a floppy drive?
Thanks

[t.torda]

This is the topic with greatest no. of readers, over the years! I have another easy to cure reason for the "missing NTDLR.." message. In multi-HDD computers, Award BIOS has an ordered list of the HDD's. XP-Pro only looks at the first and reports "Missing..." if it does not find it there. Check the Boot section of your BIOS and after "Boot order" there are headings for removable drives and HDD. Check the order of the HDD's there and bring the one with the boot sector to the top if it is not there already.
I have seen this twice, already, after new HDD's have been added to machines.
TT

[gotrootdude]

If you do have the CD for XP or 2000, just go to the recovery console and run "fixboot", and "fixmbr".

If you don't know the admin password, you can use the shareware version of saminside and slave the drive to another machine to obtain it. There's many other ways: http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_admini...r_password.htm

If you don't have the CD, format a disk using a Windows NT/2000/XP computer, copy NTLDR, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini off the drive onto the disk, then copy those files onto the broken machines drive.

If your having this problem multiple times, and your not overclocking, you may have a weak power supply, a bad stick of ram, a flaky board, or a drive about to die <- This last one is NORMALLY NOT caused by a virus!

If you are overclocking, maybe you should loosen your memory timings, lower your clock speed, up your voltages, increase your cooling, etc.

If it happens all the time: Get a different computer repairman.

You should run chkdsk afterwards.