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  1. November 3rd, 2003, 08:00 PM #1
    eedmond
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    NTLDR Is Missing

    My computer has WinXP Home edition on it. For no reason that I know of it all of sudden started giving me NTLDR is Missing. Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot. I went to Microsoft's website and found this http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;320397 I created the boot disk and got windows working again when you boot of the disk. But I don't want to boot of the disk any more. It says in the article to contact microsoft for the patch but when you click on contact microsoft it says contact the vendor of your computer (Compaq). When I called them they said it was out of warrenty and wanted a bunch of money to talk to them to fix it. Cannot afford to do that. Anybody know how to fix this? I was checking these forums and saw some others that had a similar problem that said to use the repair console and use the Fixboot command. I had to do this once before on my machine with XP Pro and it ended up screwing up NTFS Partition so I lost ALL my data. I am very leary of using this command again.

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  2. November 3rd, 2003, 08:41 PM #2
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    Boot to the CD.......IF you have a OS cd and not the recovery set.

    Go to the repair console and type fixboot, then fixmbr. That should get ya going.
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  3. November 3rd, 2003, 08:52 PM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by DocPC
    Boot to the CD.......IF you have a OS cd and not the recovery set.

    Go to the repair console and type fixboot, then fixmbr. That should get ya going.
    Unfortunatly it is a Compaq so it only has the Recovery set. I do have a XP Pro CD, would that work even though this is a XP Home?

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  4. November 3rd, 2003, 08:56 PM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by eedmond
    Unfortunatly it is a Compaq so it only has the Recovery set. I do have a XP Pro CD, would that work even though this is a XP Home?

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    Yes, it should.
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  5. March 7th, 2008, 01:38 PM #5
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    Angry NTLDR missing

    NTLDR missing!!! please help. Cannot get to safe mode, no XP CD, came preinstalled. HELP!!
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  6. March 7th, 2008, 04:14 PM #6
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    Welcome to Windrivers MustangMissM

    What make and model computer is it?
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  7. March 7th, 2008, 05:24 PM #7
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    There is a fix which you should be pretty proficient with computers to use
    http://tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm
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