Ntldr?

[engulfflames]

What does it mean when your computer wont boot and it says "NTLDR is missing"?

[Ghost(BOO!)]

Short for NT loader, NTLDR is a program loaded from the hard drive boot sector that displays the Microsoft Windows NT startup menu and helps Microsoft Windows NT load.


here are reasons for that

1. Computer is booting from a non-bootable source.
2. Computer hard disk drive is not properly setup in BIOS.
3. Corrupt NTLDR and/or NTDETECT.COM file.
4. Misconfiguration with the boot.ini file.
5. Attempting to upgrade from a Windows 95, 98, or ME computer that is using FAT32.
6. New hard disk drive being added.
7. Corrupt boot sector / master boot record.
8. Seriously corrupted version of Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
9. Loose or Faulty IDE/EIDE hard disk drive cable.

[glc]

Most often, it's a nonbootable floppy left in the floppy drive. Next most often is a nonbootable hard drive - usually one that hasn't been formatted and an OS installed on it.