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    NLTDR missing....

    Hello Everyone,

    My server PC which was fine until this afternoon when it started to show an error when booting from the hard drive.
    The error says: NLTDR missing Press CTRL + ALT + DEL to restart and that's about it. I have backups of the drive so I am not in a panic situation at the moment. But I don't want to have to reformat/reinstall the drive and lose all my information and then have to reload all the backups etc.
    The Windows XP drive is a Fujitsu MPC3043AT 4.3GB IDE drive and I've had it for about 8 years now since 1999.
    The error is very strange because If I use the secondary Seagate drive, which has Windows 2000 Pro installed, I can actually select Windows XP on the boot menu and boot off the Windows XP drive.
    Is there any way that I can fix this error without doing a full reinstall. I was thinking of a Windows XP repair, but I don't know how that's going to perform.

    Thanks.
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    #2
    Re: NLTDR missing....

    Can you confirm whether boot drive root file ntldr is missing
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      #3
      Re: NLTDR missing....

      It's been a while since I saw this on a system, I think that the hard drive may have some bad sectors. We had one at work do this. If I remember, it had a RAID drive. There was an option (at boot) to configure the RAID. In side of that there was an option to map the bad sectors.

      This was never done, as I am not allowed to do this stuff at work ( I don't know anything!). But if you can do this, then boot into the windows disk and do the recovery mode option. I'm not 100% sure on the exact name of the option.

      The PC at work was accessible by putting the HD in another computer (as you found), so the drive wasn't trashed. You may want to try and recover important files before trying to fix it. Your drive may actually be OK, just some of the important windows files have become corrupted.

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        #4
        Re: NLTDR missing....

        Sometimes I get that if I've overclocked the memory too high.

        So check your memory for corruption first.
        A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.

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          #5
          Re: NLTDR missing....

          Try to run scandisk on the drive in another computer. There is a slight chance that could fix it.

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