NTLDR missing on boot up

[Mrsitter]

Hi guys,

Does anyone know how I can try and recover a system that is booting up with a message stating Ntldr is missing.

I have tried emergency disks and the repair facilty from the w2k disks but to no avail. I am now at the point where I don't want to be and that is to do a complete installation.

Thanking you in anticipation.

 

[georgeous]

Is there a floppy disk stuck somewhere.

I had this problem and it was a disk that was in my disk drive.
I'm sure you have probably thought of this, but it helped me.

 

[Mrsitter]

I did look for a disk. There was one stuck but managed to take out.

Any advice is welcome. Cheers

 

[Davetoo]

You'll get that error if you have a non system disk in the drive. You said you found a disk in the drive, when you removed it and rebooted, does the error still appear?

I'm Certifiable, not certified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

 

[happyal]

I've had this problem,

I've never been able to restore the system, I've always had to reinstall.

If you need the data off the disk you can install the system to a different directory, boot up and save the data.

Or

Put the disk into another PC, boot up using the other PC' OS and get the data that way.

 

[Code666]

do you have the OS CD? try this article:

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm

you will need the windows 2000 CD

let us know how it turns out...