maniac_lonestar
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Went I load up the computer it said that ntldr is missing.
I cant load the computer anymore. Please help me someone.
I cant load the computer anymore. Please help me someone.
Vigilante said:Only some very new laptops would allow booting to a USB flash drive. Although they may still allow booting to a USB CD-ROM, that's different.
If you can't find one to try, there is really not a whole lot you can do.
Does the boot process get far enough to let you get to the XP boot options? By pressing F8 before Windows attempts to load. If you do get a menu, try the various options.
In my experience, when ntldr is missing, it's usually because the hard drive is going bad. And running a CHKDSK /R /P from Recovery Console can sometimes bring it back.
I don't think you accidentally deleted the boot files, as they are hidden, read-only system files. It would be hard to do it accidentally, in other words. The ntldr missing error is farily generic, and just means that the boot process is fatally screwed. It doesn't ONLY mean that just one or two boot files are gone.
The hard drive could be bad, a virus could have taken Windows out, or any number of other things.
The best bet might be to take the laptop to a shop, they can remove the hard drive and test it. And further see if there are still files on there to retrieve. And so on.