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Answer» ok here is the thing my friend had some problems with her pc so I took a look. It was infested with viruses and rookits and other things. I used Avast in a boot time scan to get move everthing to the Avast CHEST. Now the Pc won't load windows. It gives a NTLDR is missing problem. I am tryiding to fix it The PC had windows millenniuim first put onto the hard drive and it looks like someone came by and did an upgrade to windows xp pro. So I have a fat32 with windows xp pro on it. any ideas how to fix? If I try to do a windows repair do I use a millenniuim cd or a xp cd? any other options would be greatfull thank yountldr is the xp boot loader, so you would use an xp cd to reinstall ntldr. You probably erased it, or quarantined it with avast. Good Luck!do a repair install though Quote from: ramp on June 18, 2008, 10:52:35 AM If I try to do a windows repair do I use a millenniuim cd or a xp cd? any other options would be greatfull thank you use the windows xp cd.... Quote from: hmar on June 18, 2008, 02:44:34 PM ntldr is the xp boot loader, so you would use an xp cd to reinstall ntldr. You probably erased it, or quarantined it with avast. Good Luck! now patio will this a very drastic step Quote from: abubucker0 on June 18, 2008, 02:57:33 PM Quote from: hmar on June 18, 2008, 02:44:34 PM ntldr is the xp boot loader, so you would use an xp cd to reinstall ntldr. You probably erased it, or quarantined it with avast. Good Luck! now patio will this a very drastic step Your sarcasm is wasted on me so save it for when you need it. This is the 2nd thread there have been nebulous details offered as to how this is done... From your first reply in another thread: Quote NTLDR refers to the bootloader perforrm a repair operation from the cd of the orinal OS which u have installed......... How is this done ? ? ? ___________________________________ Quote Instructions for Windows XP: Insert the Windows XP bootable CD into the computer. When prompted to press any key to boot from the CD, press any key. Once in the Windows XP setup menu, press the “R” key to repair Windows. Log into your Windows installation by pressing the “1″ key and pressing enter. You will then be prompted for your administrator password; enter that password. Copy the below two files to the root directory of the primary hard disk. In the below example we are copying these files from the CD-ROM drive letter “E.” This letter may be different on your computer. copy e:\i386\ntldr c:\ copy e:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\ Once both of these files have been successfully copied, remove the CD from the computer and reboot. Your system should now boot normally. ramp if you have any questions Post back... thanks to all the people that took the time to try to help me out. I did what you said to do Patio but it still says the NATLDR is missing. I even tried it this Boot to the XP CD. When it asks you if you want to install or Repair, choose Repair. This will take you to the Recovery console. Choose the XP install to log into, usually there's only 1, and enter the password when prompted. For Home, the default password is blank. At the C:\Windows prompt type the following commands: FIXBOOT, answer Yes CD \ ATTRIB -H NTLDR ATTRIB -S NTLDR ATTRIB -R NTLDR ATTRIB -H NTDETECT.COM ATTRIB -S NTDETEC.COM ATTRIB -R NTDETECT.COM COPY X:\I386\NTLDR C:\ COPY X:\I386\NTDETECT.COM C:\ In steps 9 and 10, "X" is the letter of your CD-ROM drive. I FOUND it on some site when I was researching this. I even tried making the 6 disk setup disks on the microsoft website and that didn't work either. any more ideas? It looks like I am just going to have to format it and start NEW.. probably be better off anyways. So its windows xp with ntfs and not windows with fat 32 Without knowing anything about the pc in questions it's very hard to advise you. Only three files are required to get Win NT to boot, these are NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM and BOOT.INI. If the pc has a floppy drive you could copy these three files onto a floppy disk on another system running XP then boot from the floppy in the suspect pc (change the boot sequence in Bios to boot from the floppy first). Ntldr will detect (from the boot.ini file) that the Win XP files to be loaded are on drive (0) partition (1) in the folder named Windows and Windows should load normally. You can then copy Ntldr from the floppy disk to the root of C: Check the contents of the boot.ini file using a text editor such as edit.com or Notepad, (do not use Wordpad or any other word processing program) it should be something like this: Quote [boot loader] timeout=30 Default= multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows="<OperatingSystem>" /fastdetect The string between double quotes "" is not important. If the pc does not have a floppy drive you could use the XP Boot CD from this site, scroll down to FIND it. It comes as a zipped ISO image so you can burn it to a cd. Good luck You could also try at the Recovery Console prompt type in fixmbr and hit Enter... Answer yes and re-boot. Quote from: patio on June 18, 2008, 03:59:17 PM Quote NTLDR refers to the bootloader perforrm a repair operation from the cd of the orinal OS which u have installed......... How is this done ? ? ? ___________________________________ hi patio if u did not understand what i was telln then u could have simply asked me to explain it instead of using insensitive words.......... now here is how i perform the repair operation.......... and by the way it was performed on win 2000 os. cos i was at my grandma's house and she had only this stupid os on her bloody old system.. step 1:- boot from your os cd in my case it is win2000. step2:-press ENTER step3:-press f8 to agree the microsoft terms......... step4:-here the system will check for any previous windows installation.the repair this installation by pressing R..... dis way only system files are again installed and no data is lost............. Ahem!!! Patio - now you know - tutorial comes complete with PICS so there's no confusion. Now ain't you the lucky one! ROFLMAO

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ok here is the thing

my friend had some problems with her pc so I took a look. It was infested with viruses and rookits and other things. I used Avast in a boot time scan to get move everthing to the Avast CHEST. Now the Pc won't load windows. It gives a NTLDR is missing problem.

I am tryiding to fix it
The PC had windows millenniuim first put onto the hard drive and it looks like someone came by and did an upgrade to windows xp pro. So I have a fat32 with windows xp pro on it.

any ideas how to fix?

If I try to do a windows repair do I use a millenniuim cd or a xp cd?

any other options would be greatfull thank yountldr is the xp boot loader, so you would use an xp cd to reinstall ntldr. You probably erased it, or quarantined it with avast. Good Luck!do a repair install though Quote from: ramp on June 18, 2008, 10:52:35 AM

If I try to do a windows repair do I use a millenniuim cd or a xp cd?

any other options would be greatfull thank you

use the windows xp cd.... Quote from: hmar on June 18, 2008, 02:44:34 PM

ntldr is the xp boot loader, so you would use an xp cd to reinstall ntldr. You probably erased it, or quarantined it with avast. Good Luck!

now patio will this a very drastic step Quote from: abubucker0 on June 18, 2008, 02:57:33 PM

Quote from: hmar on June 18, 2008, 02:44:34 PM
ntldr is the xp boot loader, so you would use an xp cd to reinstall ntldr. You probably erased it, or quarantined it with avast. Good Luck!
now patio will this a very drastic step

Your sarcasm is wasted on me so save it for when you need it.
This is the 2nd thread there have been nebulous details offered as to how this is done...

From your first reply in another thread:
Quote

NTLDR refers to the bootloader perforrm a repair operation from the cd of the orinal OS which u have installed.........

How is this done ? ? ?

___________________________________

Quote

Instructions for Windows XP:

Insert the Windows XP bootable CD into the computer.
When prompted to press any key to boot from the CD, press any key.
Once in the Windows XP setup menu, press the “R” key to repair Windows.
Log into your Windows installation by pressing the “1″ key and pressing enter.
You will then be prompted for your administrator password; enter that password.
Copy the below two files to the root directory of the primary hard disk. In the below example we are copying these files from the CD-ROM drive letter “E.” This letter may be different on your computer.
copy e:\i386\ntldr c:\
copy e:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\
Once both of these files have been successfully copied, remove the CD from the computer and reboot.

Your system should now boot normally.

ramp if you have any questions Post back...
thanks to all the people that took the time to try to help me out.

I did what you said to do Patio but it still says the NATLDR is missing. I even tried it this

Boot to the XP CD. When it asks you if you want to install or Repair, choose Repair. This will take you to the Recovery console. Choose the XP install to log into, usually there's only 1, and enter the password when prompted. For Home, the default password is blank. At the C:\Windows prompt type the following commands:

FIXBOOT, answer Yes
CD \
ATTRIB -H NTLDR
ATTRIB -S NTLDR
ATTRIB -R NTLDR
ATTRIB -H NTDETECT.COM
ATTRIB -S NTDETEC.COM
ATTRIB -R NTDETECT.COM
COPY X:\I386\NTLDR C:\
COPY X:\I386\NTDETECT.COM C:\
In steps 9 and 10, "X" is the letter of your CD-ROM drive.

I FOUND it on some site when I was researching this. I even tried making the 6 disk setup disks on the microsoft website and that didn't work either. any more ideas? It looks like I am just going to have to format it and start NEW.. probably be better off anyways. So its windows xp with ntfs and not windows with fat 32

Without knowing anything about the pc in questions it's very hard to advise you.

Only three files are required to get Win NT to boot, these are NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM and BOOT.INI. If the pc has a floppy drive you could copy these three files onto a floppy disk on another system running XP then boot from the floppy in the suspect pc (change the boot sequence in Bios to boot from the floppy first). Ntldr will detect (from the boot.ini file) that the Win XP files to be loaded are on drive (0) partition (1) in the folder named Windows and Windows should load normally. You can then copy Ntldr from the floppy disk to the root of C:

Check the contents of the boot.ini file using a text editor such as edit.com or Notepad, (do not use Wordpad or any other word processing program) it should be something like this:
Quote

[boot loader]
timeout=30
Default= multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows="<OperatingSystem>" /fastdetect

The string between double quotes "" is not important.

If the pc does not have a floppy drive you could use the XP Boot CD from this site, scroll down to FIND it. It comes as a zipped ISO image so you can burn it to a cd.

Good luck

You could also try at the Recovery Console prompt type in fixmbr and hit Enter...
Answer yes and re-boot. Quote from: patio on June 18, 2008, 03:59:17 PM

Quote
NTLDR refers to the bootloader perforrm a repair operation from the cd of the orinal OS which u have installed.........

How is this done ? ? ?

___________________________________

hi patio if u did not understand what i was telln then u could have simply asked me to explain it instead of using insensitive words..........
now here is how i perform the repair operation..........
and by the way it was performed on win 2000 os. cos i was at my grandma's house and she had only this stupid os on her bloody old system..

step 1:- boot from your os cd in my case it is win2000.

step2:-press ENTER

step3:-press f8 to agree the microsoft terms.........

step4:-here the system will check for any previous windows installation.the repair this installation by pressing R.....

dis way only system files are again installed and no data is lost.............
Ahem!!! Patio - now you know - tutorial comes complete with PICS so there's no confusion. Now ain't you the lucky one! ROFLMAO

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