Now when I start it up it says "NTLDR missing press ctrl-alt-del to restart"
what's this about? and how would i go about fixing it? It's a laptop also.
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Now when I start it up it says "NTLDR missing press ctrl-alt-del to restart"
what's this about? and how would i go about fixing it? It's a laptop also.
Try booting off the Windows CD and using the repair function?
yeah, I'll have to try that when I get out of work. That's what I was thinking but I wasn't sure.
Yeah, something's weird with the Windows bootloader. I think running fixboot in the recovery console should fix it... alternatively fixmbr, though that should be only after you've tried fixboot and it didn't work.
NTLDR is missing
Might help?
That's what you get for turning off your computers. >:(
The Windows recovery console is crap. I've managed to save maybe 5% of the NTLDR issues I've had with it, and that's out of a lot of issues given how much I mess about with operating systems. It'll probably be less painless for you to download a Linux live CD like Knoppix or any other distro that provides a live CD, use that to back up your data to a USB drive or second hard drive and format/reinstall from there.
Have you added any partitions or hard drives lately? That's usually what buggers up my installations. :p
If bort would tell us which drive (usually C) windows boots from, we can tell him what to type in the file, amirite?
If not I have no idea what I'm talking aboot.
I know, those bastards. I'm telling, since I've seen Die Hard 4.0 my Escape key remains untouched. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Mirage
We could if he also told us how many drives there are and what type of drive he's booting from. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Pureghetto
I reformated and it's now working. I hate reinstalling things.
you didn't need to reformat... im a bit late but this should help if you encounter the error again on loading windows.
type "bootcfg /rebuild" in xp recovery menu and go along with the message prompts it fixes most of the xp boot errors including the one you had :(
WHY DOES NO-ONE LISTEN TO ME WHEN I POST USE THE WINDOWS CD REPAIR FUNCTION!?!???
'Cause it hardly ever works like it's meant to! :p
Lies, I always turn my PC off most of the time and I never have encountered any error at all, or at least not yet :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Mirage
Always works for me, insert CD > start recovery console > fix boot records, and if that fails, copy the missing file.Quote:
Originally Posted by o_O