Whenever I start up my computer,

[Omizzle]

it says NTLDR is missing. It then says to press cntrl+alt+del and then it does it again. It does this on startup, not in windows btw

 

[Omizzle]

help! this is my friend btw

 

[powerMarkymark]

You will have to use the repair console to repair your NTLDR .

 

[Porter21]

Had that problem a while back. I forget what exactly I did to fix it. Maybe I reformated.

 

[mauiblue]

If you you have more than one drive in your system, maybe you are not booting off the primary (boot) drive. I remember when I was swittching cables on my RAID array, I would have that error come up. I just had to get all my drive cables set up correctly and then all was well.

Good luck.

 

[Baked]

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.

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