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alright i keep getting this message
 i restarted and pressed F8 ... nothing... just went back to the i dont have a windows disk thing or whatever :l i tried to make the ntldr thing on my usb flash drive didnt help at all... someone help? xD |
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Which version of Windows?
Enter BIOS and check which device you are booting from, whatever it is, it isn't bootable |
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You were able to search for images of the error but you couldn't find any results that told oyu how to fix it?
Instead of wasting time typing out the instructions, it would be easier to direct you toward a search engine and suggest you search for "fix ntldr missing". If you've tried specific solutions, you need to be specific when you tell us what you did, and how it failed. I mean exact, down to the minute details. |
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Bolweevil You were able to search for images of the error but you couldn't find any results that told oyu how to fix it? Instead of wasting time typing out the instructions, it would be easier to direct you toward a search engine and suggest you search for "fix ntldr missing". If you've tried specific solutions, you need to be specific when you tell us what you did, and how it failed. I mean exact, down to the minute details. i even stopped by staples :c |
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Allariele Which version of Windows? Enter BIOS and check which device you are booting from, whatever it is, it isn't bootable i tried pressign F8 it went back to the screen D; then i pressed F10 and it said "would you like to boot from these devices" all i knew of them were CD/DVD rom and usb generic drive i inserted the usb flash thing which i put the boot stuff on and it said again NTLDR is missing press Ctrl+alt+delete to restart |
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plz D; :c |
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Unless you have a repair disk for your computer your going to have ot re-install windows , since ntldr is an important system file.
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Chocolater2 Bolweevil You were able to search for images of the error but you couldn't find any results that told oyu how to fix it? Instead of wasting time typing out the instructions, it would be easier to direct you toward a search engine and suggest you search for "fix ntldr missing". If you've tried specific solutions, you need to be specific when you tell us what you did, and how it failed. I mean exact, down to the minute details. i even stopped by staples :c You didn't do everything. If you had, you would have found the solution without us. If you want help, we need to know exactly what you tried and exactly how it didn't work. We won't assume to know these thing. We only know what you tell us, and so far, you've told us practically nothing as far as troubleshooting. So it's not enough to know you downloaded "stuff" and did "something" with it. That's useless information to us. Give us details, and all of the specific steps you took to try to resolve this problem. Bore us with the details, because they're important to us. OR, do the search I suggested and actually follow the instructions in the pages that come up. |
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Bolweevil Chocolater2 Bolweevil You were able to search for images of the error but you couldn't find any results that told oyu how to fix it? Instead of wasting time typing out the instructions, it would be easier to direct you toward a search engine and suggest you search for "fix ntldr missing". If you've tried specific solutions, you need to be specific when you tell us what you did, and how it failed. I mean exact, down to the minute details. i even stopped by staples :c You didn't do everything. If you had, you would have found the solution without us. If you want help, we need to know exactly what you tried and exactly how it didn't work. We won't assume to know these thing. We only know what you tell us, and so far, you've told us practically nothing as far as troubleshooting. So it's not enough to know you downloaded "stuff" and did "something" with it. That's useless information to us. Give us details, and all of the specific steps you took to try to resolve this problem. Bore us with the details, because they're important to us. OR, do the search I suggested and actually follow the instructions in the pages that come up. alright well firstwhat i did when i found out the error got on the computer i went on google and typed in ntldr error and how to fix this is the page i went to i downloaded the one for usb drive and followed the exact steps What happened? When your computer starts, the BIOS attempts to find the primary hard drive's active partition to read the first sector for the MBR (Master Boot Record), it uses that info to load the rest of the OS. For Windows NT4/2k/XP the NTLDR (New Technology Loader) takes it from there. If you get the "NTLDR is missing, press any key to restart" what's most likely going on is the BIOS either didn't look for the right drive, didn't find the right partition, it wasn't active, didn't find the MBR, or the MBR didn't list NTLDR in the right place, or the location of NTLDR changed. If possible, try to change back whatever hardware or software change you just made (this could be as simple as leaving a floppy disk in the drive or you need to recheck the cables). (What if I made new changes that I want to keep?). Make a NTLDR boot disk to get back into Windows. ****A more recent version of this writeup is at http://ntldrismissing.com Including a boot CD for NT4/W2K! More updates were recently added in the area of fixing it to keep from having to use the boot disk.**** The quick test to make sure your OS installation is still good is to create an MBR and NTLDR on a floppy disk and check your partitions. Here are the instructions to do this: 1. Get a blank floppy (whatever is on it will be erased), and put it into the floppy drive of a working computer (What if the computer doesn't have a floppy drive?). 2. Download fixntldr.exe onto a working computer (What if I don't want to download a file from a website I don't trust?). 3. Run the fixntldr.exe file by double clicking it. Click OK to overwrite the blank floppy disc in the working computer, you should see some screens about writing a new floppy disk (What if my backup system is Linux or another alt OS?). Do you remember if the folder you had your Windows installation in was named "Windows"? If you can't remember just keep going (What if it was not named Windows like in NT4 or 2000?) . 4. Put the new floppy you have just created into the computer that gets the NTLDR is missing error message, turn the broken computer off if it is on. Use the boot disk in the computer with the "NTLDR is missing" error. Start back up the broken computer with the floppy in the floppy drive. Once your computer gets past the BIOS screen your computer should try to access the floppy drive and you should see a black screen with white letters that says: (What if I don't see this screen?). 1ST TRY THIS seleccione esto primero 2ND TRY THIS essayez ceci en deuzieme 3RD TRY THIS wahlen Sie diesen Third 4TH TRY THIS selezioni questo fourth 5TH TRY THIS selecione este fifth 6TH TRY THIS seleccione este sexto 7TH TRY THIS essayez ceci en septieme 8TH TRY THIS wahlen Sie dieses achte 9TH TRY THIS selezioni questo nono 10TH TRY THIS selecione este decimo (I threw in some Spanish / French / German / Italian / Portuguese for international flavor.) This file is set up to automatically select the "1ST TRY THIS" choice after 30 seconds. Try it first, but if it gives you an error (usually something about a hal.dll file not loading) and doesn't continue booting into Windows XP, try the other options. ("1ST TRY THIS" aims for a Win XP installation to the first drive on the first partition, if yours is different, you will have to select another option. "ninth" aims for a Win98 installation on drive C, and "tenth" aims for a Win98 installation on drive D) One of the choices should eventually boot you back into Windows. (If you go all the way to option 10 and still get errors on startup, try changing boot.ini to windows.ini and then winxp.ini to boot.ini, run through all 10 possibilities again, then change boot.ini to winxp.ini and winnt.ini to boot.ini and trying those 10 choices. (What if none of the options worked?) . Use windows to fix the boot files on the hard drive. Once you get back into windows, try to change back whatever you were last doing and boot normally, it that doesn't work, go to the root of your C: drive and rename boot.ini to boot.ini.bak, ntldr to ntldr.bak, and ntdetect.com to ntdetect.com.bak, then copy the files that are on your floppy disk to the root of your C: drive (if you used the CD-ROM, download the fixntldr.zip file and use the boot files from there) so that the files are on the root, like C:ntldr C:ntdetect.com C:boot.ini. If it prompts you to overwrite a file, press "Yes". After they have been copied over, be sure to remove the "Read-Only" attribute from the properties of the files. (Right click on a file, choose properties, and uncheck the Read-Only box). Take the floppy out and reboot the computer (you should see the "1st Try This" menu, make the same selection you did before. If you get back into Windows again, you can keep that "1st Try This" menu by going into Start > Control Panel > System > Advanced tab > Startup and Recovery section, Settings button > System Startup; then change the "Default Operating System:" to the selection that worked for you, and change the box that says "Time to display list of operating systems" to 1 second. Click OK twice. (What if the bootdisk worked, but I can't get into Windows without it?) . (What if I want to do further research?) . It worked! Please help me back. All done? Hi, I'm Miles Comer and I developed this "solution" back in 2002 when I had to fix my relatives computer without me standing over their shoulder. If the floppy fixed it for you, might I humbly suggest you use a credit card or PayPal to donate for $5 or whatever amount you choose (even $3 would be fine). If you don't have a credit card or pay pal account, you can mail a check to me, use the form below to send me your email address and I'll send you the address to mail the check to you. I added this button because I sometimes get complaints that the other button doesn't show up. Ad revenues help, but it's your donations that are the force that keeps this site up and able to make improvements. Before it was much more difficult to create the boot floppy, but with WinImage Pro (for $80!) it's much simpler. I also hope to get the USB boot floppy working, and make the process for renaming the boot.ini file simpler. I figured we'd have a new OS by 2005, but with Vista not out until sometime in 2007 and people using Windows 98 7 years later, I'm sure Windows XP won't disappear anytime soon and thus this page must stay. A free way to help me would be to link back to my webpage. Either from your own web page, or if you belong to any discussion forum that has to do with computers, or has a lounge section, why not let everyone know I helped you out by making a post and in that post, link back to my webpage? http://ntldrismissing.com If you would like, try providing feedback where everyone can see it (no login required) on "The Corkboard". Copyright 2002 by Miles Comer All Rights Reserved; You can link to this article without first contacting me. See more of Tiny Empire's ShortNotes to fix your problems. now downloaded and ready i inserted it into the main usb flash drive and clicked control alternate and delete it restarted and led to the big "E" then i mashed on the F10 button until a black screen with a blue box came up in the box it listed the drives available to boot up from CD/DVD GENERIC USB FLASH DRIVE ISBU4 [i couldnt read the rest of it ._.] i had the usb flash drive in the computers main drive in the front of the processor so i clicked generic usb flash drive it took a few seconds but then it said the nltdr is still missing idk what to do now xD |
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