I had a hard drive to crash, so I pulled out a hard drive I had never used to load the operating system onto, and I am using a different drive to load all my program files like Office, etc.

Well, the frst time I had to restart the computer during loading of Windows XP, I got the message that the NTLDR file is missing. So I went into recovery and copied the NTLDR to C: DIRECTORY. I then continued the boot and the computer booted normaly.

The second time I had to restart the PC, I got the NTLDR file is missing again. I went into recovery, copied the NTLDR to the C: directory, overwriting the NTLDR I had copied the first time. I continued the boot and the computer booted correctly. One THING that was strange is that the recovery app showed Windows loaded on the C: drive and E: drive which there is not a copy of Windows on the E: drive.

To make a long story short, every time I turn off the computer, and restart it, I have to reload the NTLDR file even THOUGH it is present.

PLEASE HELP!

Any and all advice will be greatly appreciated...

DavidNTLDR can be 'missing' for more than one reason even if the NTLDR file is in the root. See here.

Thanks for your reply.

I did a search of the forum before I started a new thread and found that post.

I tried all the FIXES posted in that thread, all to no avail.

Any other ideas?

DavidHere's the MS KB.