ntdlr missing

ramius

hi,

My machine wont boot up and i am just getting the error message 'ntdlr missing'. This happened before and i ended up formating the hard disk,(lucky me i had all my files backed up) anyway does anyone know how to get around this problem,

Please Help Me!!

ramius

The machine is running windows '98

MiCr0

will it boot from a floppy?

ramius

It will boot into dos with a startup disk but it still wont load windows

Kix

I strongly suspect that you mean "ntldr", the NT boot loader, rather than "ntdlr".

If that's true then you probably had the machine set up to dual boot NT/Win98 at some stage?

You may be able to SYS the C: drive from a 98 boot floppy to get it working again. I suppose it's worth a try:

1. Boot from your 98 startup floppy
2. Type "SYS C:" at the command prompt
3. Remove the floppy and reboot.

This only goes of course if everything I've conjectured above is true and you don't want NT anymore!

K

ramius

Thanks for that I will try it. I had 2000 on it last year.

Kix

Good stuff. Let me know how you get on and if it doesn't work we'll see what else we can think of.

BTW: When you're booted up on the floppy do a "DIR C:\" just to make sure all the files on the root of the C: drive aren't deleted.

K

Kev

fdisk /mbr should remove the nt loader from the master boot record.

Loomer

I agree with Kev. Your Master Boot Record has probably got corrupted and booting with a boot floopy with fdisk and typing fdisk /mbr should fix the problem

ramius

Thanks for all the help, Everything is fixed now, fdisk /mbr did the trick