NTLDR IS MISSING - system down, PLEASE HELP

[Jason]

Hi, I have been running my machine with Windows XP Home
for almost a year now with 2 hard discs, with Windows on
my main C drive. For no reason (and my machine def shut
down okay) upon my next boot up I am getting the message
NTLDR IS MISSING....please press CTRL&Alt&Del to restart

I have checked the help section and this can happen upon
upgrading from a lower version of windows but this was not
the case with me. As a result I cannot boot my system and
basically need HELP! Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[Mcploppy]

Hi Jason,
Had this problem once a long time ago with a win98 machine....
A floppy was inserted into the "a" drive, the floppy had been a boot disk
for an NT system in a previous life, and there were still some boot files
on it, ...

Check your "a" drive :-)

Dont think this is the answer, but when it happened to me it got our IT guys
going as NTLDR has nothing to do with 98....
Cheers
--
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<Jason> typed:
:: Hi, I have been running my machine with Windows XP Home
:: for almost a year now with 2 hard discs, with Windows on
:: my main C drive. For no reason (and my machine def shut
:: down okay) upon my next boot up I am getting the message
:: NTLDR IS MISSING....please press CTRL&Alt&Del to restart
::
:: I have checked the help section and this can happen upon
:: upgrading from a lower version of windows but this was not
:: the case with me. As a result I cannot boot my system and
:: basically need HELP! Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[JGGillette]

Go to this page: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/N/NTLDR.html

It sounds like what you're looking for.

JGGillette

"Jason" > wrote in message
...
> Hi, I have been running my machine with Windows XP Home
> for almost a year now with 2 hard discs, with Windows on
> my main C drive. For no reason (and my machine def shut
> down okay) upon my next boot up I am getting the message
> NTLDR IS MISSING....please press CTRL&Alt&Del to restart
>
> I have checked the help section and this can happen upon
> upgrading from a lower version of windows but this was not
> the case with me. As a result I cannot boot my system and
> basically need HELP! Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
>