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Apr 16th, 2013, 05:21 PM
#1
NTLDR Missing
What is NTLDR and where is it?
I have XP running on one PC1. I removed the hard drive from PC1 and hooked it up to PC2 as a slave drive also running XP. On PC2 which now has the HD from PC1 I copied the entire contents from the HD from PC1 to an external drive so that I would have a copy of the OS from PC1. Now I remove the HD from PC2 and hooked up another HD also as a slave drive on PC2. (This new drive was just formatted using Windows formatting utility). I copied the OS from the external drive to this new HD. I have done this many times without any problems and I could always use either HD on PC1. This time for whatever reason beyond me when I tried to use the new HD on PC1 I get NTLRD is missing and I cannot boot.
I went back to PC2 which works and did a search for NTLRD but it couldn't be found on the system. So how does PC2 boot up if NTLRD does not exist and why am I told that when I try to boot up PC1 using the new HD I'm told that NTLRD is missing?
Last edited by jmsrickland; Apr 16th, 2013 at 05:29 PM.
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Apr 16th, 2013, 06:40 PM
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Re: NTLDR Missing
I had the same problem a while back! It refers to the fact that it can not find the Operating System on the device or drive. Try switching channels, boot order, etc.
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Apr 18th, 2013, 11:28 PM
#3
Re: NTLDR Missing
your boot file is pointing to the wrong place. the easiest answer is to use the os install disk and do a repair install. make sure you searched for ntldr not ntlrd. It's a hidden file and search (and copy) don't normally find hidden/system files. In addition you can come up with problems if the file is locked when you are trying to copy it.
other possibilites that can cause this: bios trying to boot from slave drive, trying to boot from a floppy disk, non-bootable cd with system files on it, etc.
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Apr 19th, 2013, 10:52 AM
#4
Re: NTLDR Missing
I beginning to think it was like you said; trying to boot from a slave drive. As of now I can't verify that was the reason as I have since changed things around but it sounds to me like it must have been this reason. Also, I probably did search for NTLRD
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