NTLDR Issues During Bootup

[MrPShah]

I have an issue with my computer. It has windows xp installed and runs fine except...for some reason, the NTLDR not found error shows up unless I boot with the XP CD in the drive. I don't have to run setup or anything, I just have to leave it in the drive. Is there anyway around this?

 

[sundev]

Do you have a floppy disk in the disk drive by any chance??

 

[Spineshank]

A floppy in the drive wouldnt boot it at all regardless of a cd in.

 

[DrPowers]

I'm new to posting on this forum but I've always browsed it.

I have this same problem... I also dont have a floppy drive installed on my machine anywhere...

Also a note... When I remake the boot files it works on the first boot then stops working after that.

I would like to know if anyone else solved this problem without having to reformat and reinstall windows.

 

[nebula]

Doesn't this indicate something wrong with the drive's boot sector? Something that fixboot or fixmbr would fix? I'm not entirely sure though...

 

[stevty2889]

I have a somewhat similar problem going on in one of my PC's right now. I have an IDE drive, and a SATA drive. Windows is installed on the IDE drive..but won't finish booting if I don't have the SATA drive in as well. I've tried doing a repair install, with the SATA drive in and the SATA drive out, and still get the same results. Only thing I can think of at this point is to just go ahead and re-install windows. You may need to do the same.

 

[Allanv]

that sounds like the boot order in the bios is set incorrectly, change it to boot hdd first then the cd or make the cd the last boot

 

[BSEagle1]

I had this problem awhile back, but I forget how I fixed it.

A quick search on Google for NTLDR turned up this: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm

Does that help?

 

[DrPowers]

Ok I fixed it on my rig... Not only did I have to set the HD as the primary boot device but also had to set the options for Hard drive priority so that the HD with that I wanted to boot from was first on my list.