I'd love to know because apparantly mines gone missing....
Re-formatted the drive in my backup machine, put it back in my own came to install windows xp and was told very nicely that an i386 something or other was missing, restarted with the hope of being able to put 2000 pro on the machine and upgrading and now I'm being told the ntldr is missing whatever the hell that is.......
Its the NT Loader file.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm
That's the boot loader.
I think that's a boot file, which tells the system what to boot. If you don't have it, the computer can't boot (as you found out!). I would have thought a reinstall should sort it, if you delete everything that's already there (assuming that's an option).
Don't worry, somebody who knows what they're talking about should be along soon.
"Well, there was your Uncle Tiberius who died wrapped in cabbage leaves but we assumed that was a freak accident."
I've had the same problem before. Can't remember how I fixed it but it was probably some sequence of fixmbr, fixboot and bootcfg from the recovery console.
Check the boot order, putting in another HDD sometimes changes it and this happens.
NTLDR is windows's equivalent to GRUB or LILO on linux - a tiny little program, which interacts with the master boot record installed into the first 512 bytes of your hard disk, to give you control over which OS to boot on your system. NTLDR reads that information from C:\BOOT.INI, and displays it in a nice menu for you (unless there's nothing to display, because you have only one entry)
you can fix it by booting a windows cd, getting to the recovery console, tyuping "fixboot" then "fixmbr"
My boot orders the same, nothings changed it seems except this file......
It won't let me get into a windows cd to use the recovery console, any other ways?
Are you booting from the CD? If not, then change the boot order in the BIOS. You've formatted the drive in an NT/2000/XP machine, and the machine it's gone back into is trying to boot from it. Since it was formatted under an NT-based system, it's looking for NTLDR. Set the BIOS to boot from CDROM first, then stick the CD in, reboot, install.
I've tried booting from the cd, It bsod's on me before I can reformat or reinstall anything
In that case, there's probably a bigger problem than just the NTLDR. Try turning down overclocks (if you have any), taking out bits you don't need, etc. - you know the drillOriginally Posted by Knoxville
I've tried booting from the cd, It bsod's on me before I can reformat or reinstall anything
You could also try another hard drive (or just taking it out to see if it will boot off the CD).
"Well, there was your Uncle Tiberius who died wrapped in cabbage leaves but we assumed that was a freak accident."
Please say you haven't left a floppy in the drive...
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I may be big but I'm not stupid Kez
Run some tests on your RAM. Dodgy RAM during installs can damage files.
Download the Ultimate Boot Disc and burn it to a CD for all the diagnostics you'll ever need
I deleted that file once after thinking it wasn't for anything, nearly had to reinstall windows. Live and learn.
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