NTLDR is missing!!!

[spyder850]

ive managed to get this upon booting my windows xp hd lately...ive tried going through the recovery console and typing in

copy e:\i386\ntldr c:\
copy e:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\


and ive done a fixmbr and a fixboot and still i get the same message...am i doing these things wrong? inthe wrong order? theres no floppy disks in my drive, no usb flash drives that are in there to conflict with bootup.

let me know if more information is needed.
any suggestions would be most apprieciated.

 

[spyder850]

WOOOOOHOOOO!!!



kjv1611 you are the man! (and thanks to Linney as well for showing me exactly what i need to to do set active!)

but i went into the PTDD Super Fdisk editor and set my ntfs partition as active....and low and behold, after a restart, booted into windows xp with absolutely no issues. no bluescreens nothing! Im definately gonna hang onto that Ultimate Boot CD incase i have any further issues.

kjv, linney, and ben of course...guys you should get paid to do all this! thanks thanks thanks and more thanks guys.



thanks for all your replies take care fellas!

 

[Freestone]

Glad to see you got it working!

A little late now but the link I posted,

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm,

was for 98SE or ME boot disks from which you could have run FDISK and set your partition active. You didn't make it clear that you didn't understand what the link was for.

Anyway, all's well that ends well

 

[BadBigBen]

Spyder850 - glad you got it up and running... and we do this cuz we love computers (at least I do... LOL...)


Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

 

[linney]

That's funny, I do it because I hate computers, well, broken ones, anyway.

 

[FlyingDevilFish]

I had the same problem and mine was caused by the BIOS looking at the wrong HD to boot from. Simple check but see if your BIOS has a "HD Boot Order" section.