when I boot my laptop I get a message "NTLDR is missing press cntl alt del to restart". I cant even boot from the CD, it says the same thing. Yes, I set the boot first for the CD Rom, No, its not a faulty disc. It was working just fine 5 minutes before....let me explain what I did before than. I wanted to put back 98SE on my laptop, it was running Win 2000. I wanted to leave win2000 on there, just in case so i made sure it was in a seperate partition. I have done this before, so it's not that. I think I accidentally set the windows partition for FAT32, but I dont see how that is completely unfixable. It wont even format. I was in the process of formatting with the setup cd, and it wouldnt let me proceed without a floppy, I dont have one...so I rebooted, and its been stuck like this ever since.....please help!!!!!!
2007-02-28 11:16:03 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
oh god i hate this problem. i had it on my computer and short of throwing the thing out the window i didn't know what to do.
If you can understand what to do.
http://tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm
this website saved my life. it works if that is the problem. all you need is another computer (your obviously using one) and a Floppy Disk, and maybe a lil computer knowledge.
it has step by step instructions so you shouldn't get too lost.
hope your computer lives =)
2007-02-28 11:22:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My two cents... The boot loader is trying to find Win2000. You mentioned that you moved the Win200 partition. Did you set it as the Active partition? If not then the active partition is currently an empty or partially installed Win98 on FAT32.
Use partition commander software or FDISK and set the WIN2000 as the active partition.
You can try using a USB floppy OR by an IDE adapter for the laptop hard drive and installit as a slave drive in a dectop and run with ever tools need to repair it or trans fer you data to the deskPC and reformat the laptop drive.
2007-02-28 14:22:42 · answer #2 · answered by MarkG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whenever I see that, it means I left a floppy in the drive.
Hope that helps.
UPDATE:
Computer is booting from a non-bootable source.
Computer hard disk drive is not properly setup in BIOS.
Corrupt NTLDR and/or NTDETECT.COM file.
Misconfiguration with the boot.ini file.
Attempting to upgrade from a Windows 95, 98, or ME computer that is using FAT32.
New hard disk drive being added.
Corrupt boot sector / master boot record.
Seriously corrupted version of Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
Loose or Faulty IDE/EIDE hard disk drive cable.
Each listed problem has a writeup section.
Good luck.
2007-02-28 11:24:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try starting up in safe mode. (tap F8 key while computer is opening up) and see if you can do a system restore.
Try the system restore:
Go To:
start
programs
accessories
systems tools
system restore
This process is completely reversable. And does not remove your personal files. Just go back one checkpoint at a time until your puter is working good again.
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2007-02-28 11:22:04 · answer #4 · answered by Elaine B 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You should be able to boot to the CD and then do a Fdisk. That should remove all the partitions and then re-partition. You should be able to format.
2007-02-28 11:26:19 · answer #5 · answered by bassa 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is irritating, try
bootdisk.com
computerhope.com
langa.com
also
gords and or axcels , I forgot the URLs, but search for Boot.ini and NTLDR together.
2007-02-28 11:28:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
your going to need to create a boot floppy disk..... here is the link explaining how to do it
http://tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm
2007-02-28 11:26:58 · answer #7 · answered by jim 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋