NTLDR is missing.

[technicks]

Hi there.

I installed Vista on my Maxtor 250 gb hd. First i formatted the C partition. Then inserted the dvd and installed Vista.
When i reboot after install there is a message NTLDR is missing, press ctrl alt delete to restart.
I tried to connect the hd to my friend's pc with his hd still in it. I can choose between his XP or my Vista install. If i choose the Vista it work's normaly.
But if i remove his hd from the pc once again i get the NTLDR error.

Any idea's are welkom.

Thanks.

 

[Jimmy 2004]

First download the Maxtor hard drive testing utility. If you have no problems from that, try reinstalling Vista if you don't have anything important on it yet. That would be the quickest solution...

 

[Alcpone]

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

 

[ktr]

Hi there.

I installed Vista on my Maxtor 250 gb hd. First i formatted the C partition. Then inserted the dvd and installed Vista.
When i reboot after install there is a message NTLDR is missing, press ctrl alt delete to restart.
I tried to connect the hd to my friend's pc with his hd still in it. I can choose between his XP or my Vista install. If i choose the Vista it work's normaly.
But if i remove his hd from the pc once again i get the NTLDR error.

Any idea's are welkom.

Thanks.

hmm...if your friend can boot off both OS when having both hdds running at the same time...that means the boot.ini has the wrong hard disk or partition to boot off. also on your friends computer...see what the boot.ini says for both installations...

if it says something like...

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP" /fastdetect

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Vista" /fastdetect

this means that the...

first hard disk, first partition is XP
second hard disk, first partition is VISTA

try changing the boot orders in the bios...where you can some how make your hdd a "second hard disk"


also look at this: http://tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm


http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/mbr/bootini.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022


edit...

also make sure you dont have any usb thumb drives or anything that can be condsidered a hdd, this can throw of the location of the hard disk, expecially for SATA.

 

[Alec§taar]

Fixboot

&

FixMBR



* 2 possibles that MIGHT help from the "RECOVERY CONSOLE" bootup from your installation Cd/DvD for your Os type...

(If all else fails, like manually copying over NTLDR to your disk from it, etc.)

APK

P.S.=> If I were using that though, I would ONLY put the disk my OS is on, online & THAT DISK ONLY (so the damn thing doesn't get 'confused' seeing other controllers w/ disks on them online while you work w/ it... I have seen that happen, & especially w/ 3rd party controllers (like the one I use for example), & be sure you have that F6 drivers disk around if you use such controllers, so the OS can access them & the disks on them!)... apk

 

[technicks]

Thank you for all your info. But somehow i got it to work.

I left the dvd in the drive then when i came out of the bios it asked me to boot from dvd.
So i thought what the h#ll i'll try it again.

From the dvd i chose the memory test. Came out with no errors. But after it was ready it booted up Vista. and it worked perfectly.

I was scared to boot up again but it had to be done because of the new ATI driver.
Also the second time no problems.

I don't know what solved it but i am glad it's over.

 

[ktr]

This is from an old post of mine:

does it do this when you insert the xp cd? If it doesn't i would...double check your boot priorities in bios. The thing is when your comp reads the xp cd, the xp cd looks for an os installed. It can look beyond the boot priorties (a easy way to boot to xp with a missing or corrupted ntldr/mbr), by the physical volume. if it doesn't find anything it will automatically load the setup. if it does find xp or another os, it will message you "press any key to start setup."

does it still boot w/o the cd inserted?

 

[technicks]

Yes, i tried taking the cd out and i still boots up.

 

[ktr]

Good to hear