NTLDR is missing

[Saber99]

Compaq deskpro EN - coming up with NTLDR is missing; any idea what this is/means?? Cant get into bios - message comes up immediately.

Really need an answer fast.

Cheers,

Saber

[D1]

Boot from CD attempt to repair via ERD (emergency repair disk). Error code from what I undertand is your boot sector is corrupt.

I got the same issues earlier this week. forced me to smoke the drive and start again, as I didn't "backup" system files for such an ocassion.

If you have a second drive perhaps you can have that intalled with os and have it read the important info off drive with missing boot sector??

my 2cents, hope it helps.

JW

[jay015]

If this pc was upgraded from a previous Win9x installation, this might help!
<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q255/2/20.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=ntldr%20is%20missing&rnk=24&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=MSALL" target="_blank">http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q255/2/20.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=ntldr%20is%20missing&rnk=24&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=MSALL</a> ;)

[TheLow1]

Wait, wait I had this question on my 70-215
Boot from the CD in the recovory console restore the missing file

[PcTechie999]

I have had this issue a few times before. Every time it has been because someone left a floppy in the a: drive.

[mope54]

<font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva" size="2">Originally posted by TheLow1:
Wait, wait I had this question on my 70-215
Boot from the CD in the recovory console restore the missing file</font>

How do we know which file is missing?