HTLDR is missing

[Beer4meok]

Hi hope some one can help me with this, I installed the latest update from Microsoft on my desktop,It asked me to restart,
Then I get this message,

HTLDR is missing
press ctrl+alt+del to restart

I can not get into my bios,or safe mode just get the message continually in a loop.??? :-(

Please let us know if the advice we give is of some help.
Feedback will benefit all
Dave

 

[pechenegs]

are you sure its not NTLDR?


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[pechenegs]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;318728

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[Beer4meok]

Yes I did mean NTLDR,
Tried to repair from installation CD,did not work,
also changed the battery,thought it mite be that.
I don't have a floppy drive on that machine.
thanks, will keep trying
Dave

 

[pechenegs]

wow, you really need a floppy drive for things like this!

even if you could get an external floppy drive you could make a bootable floppy disc by copying these files to a floppy, boot off it and then copy over the NTLDR to your C:\. Do you have Xp or w2k?

this is a boot.ini for XP, just copy it to notepad and save as boot.ini

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

FOr W2k

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect


Copy these files form the xp disc to make a bootable floppy!

Ntldr
Ntdetect.com
Boot.ini



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[Beer4meok]

Thank you Linney,

This article was most helpful

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000648.htm

I'm not sure if it was the update or not,its just
makes me suspicious that after all the boots and reboots
that i have done on this machine.
It only happened after that reboot.

Thanks again
Dave