Missing NTLDR?

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Missing NTLDR?

Hi there
I just accomplished in making half of the installation of my windovs xp work. I finally found a way to manually format the disk to a "nfts"-wutever.

Now a new problem shows up 😟 when the computer restarted i hoped that all woul be good. But then this message appear "missing ntldr, press ctlr,alt, delete to restart" this was showed still with the installation disk in the drive. I couldn't press ctrl,alt,delete... So i was stuck and decided to turn off the computer. Ejected the cd and tried to boot from the windows disk.

Same message :S ... I'm kind of new to this, so any help in solving this problem would be seriously appreciatet 😀
Hope for a quick and informative answer 🙂

Jørn..

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Sep 16, 2008 1:42 PM

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Axel Foley

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Sep 16, 2008 2:50 PM in response to JoernE

The Windows 2000 and Windows XP CDs supplied by Microsoft has a tool called the *Recovery Console* which can be used to repair errors that prevent Windows XP from starting using the command line.

1 Boot your Macbook from the Windows CD (*Hold Option Key at startup and choose Windows CD*)
2 When the Welcome to Setup screen appears, *press R*.
3 Type a number corresponding to the Windows installation you wish to repair (usually 1) and press Enter.
4 When prompted, type the administrator password and press Enter.
5 From the command prompt, copy NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM from the i386 folder of the CD to the root folder of the hard drive. In the example commands given below, C: is the hard drive and D: is the CD-ROM drive. You will need to change the drive letters if appropriate:

COPY D:\I386\NTLDR C:\
COPY D:\I386\NTDETECT.COM C:\

6 Remove the Windows XP CD from the drive and restart the computer.

Above is an excerpt from [HERE|http://www.tech-pro.net/howto-fix-ntldr-is-missing.html].

Axel F.

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JoernE Author

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Sep 16, 2008 11:48 PM in response to Axel Foley

Well first of all thanks for the very fast answer!

I love that people in here take their time to help people.

I've just got the problem that the welcome screen (i looked it up on google) never shows up, it just automatically goes in to the same missing ntldr mode. No actually it gives me the option to press any key to boot from cd.
So i pressed a random key in this case "r", and it went directly in to the setup without giving me the option to go to recovery console...
Though it offers me to press f2 to go to system recovery.
When i press f2. it says insert the disk and press enter, or something like that. I only have this one disk - I guess. So i hit enter same message, hit enter same message.
And I actually checked the hard disk and it seems that the file is in the right place, as far as I under stood. When i open the disk it has a folder called "windows", then 3 files called: boot.ini, NTDETECT.COM, and ntldr (as written - without capital)... This kind of confuse me, cause on the cd it's capitaled could this make any difference?
Maybe it would help to eject the disk and reinsert it, but how would i do that? i have no idea.

Hope this brings me a little closer to the final solution.

Jørn

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