NTLDR missing or NTDETECT.COM not found in windows XP

Posted by Rohit in computer problems, windows 

10

Feb

Trouble:

Have you ever seen “NTLDR is missing, Press any key to restart” during boot up ? One of our reader got this problem suddenly at the time of booting windows. Due to this, the windows does not boot.

What is NTLDR ?

NTLDR (NT Loader) is the boot loader for all releases of Microsoft’s Windows NT operating system up to and including Windows XP.

This message NTLDR is missing indicates that the boot loader is either corrupted or missing due to some reason.

Let’s see how we can fix it.

Fix:

There are two approaches to fix the missing boot loader in windows XP.

If your Windows is installed on FAT32 Partitions:
1. Boot your computer with a Win98 startup floppy.

2. Now, copy the NTLDR or NTDETECT.COM files from the i386 directory on your floppy to your windows installation drive (e.g in “c:\” in case the windows is installed on c:).

If your Windows is installed on NTFS Partitions:
1. Arrange for the bootable Windows XP setup CD.
2. Boot from CD select R=Repair option, by pressing R key during the setup.
3. Select the windows installation.
4. You need to enter in the administrator password when requested, if you had not set any password for the administrator account just press enter without typing.
5. Type the following commands to repair the bootloader, where X is the drive letter for your CD / DVD drive.
COPY X:\i386\NTLDR C\:
COPY X:\i386\NTDETECT.COM C:\
6. Eject CD-ROM and type exit to restart.

We hope this helps to fix the trouble.

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Kanak Bhandari says, February 10th, 2008   

Reminded me of college days when every month one among my friends used to have this problem . We normally used to copy it to the windows 98 boot floppy and then using move command used to paste it to the C drive. :) .. This repair option in Windows XP is also really handy at times !!

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haresh says, February 22nd, 2008   

Hi,

mapi spooler error in 0utlook 2003 , because of this i cant work in my outlook

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masrour says, March 1st, 2008   

hi,
I installed Linux (centos5) and grub boot loader on MBR and I had windows xp and win2000 owver it too. when i boot with linux i could select for my other operating system (xp).
For some resean i format one of windows ntfs partintions and after that my windows couldn’t boot. it show ntldr is missing.
for resolving it. i tried to boot by xp setup CD but my CD after showing to boot process setup.my display nothing else show and darked! I can’t do anything with this. at now, What’t your idea?!

thanks regards for your considrations :)

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Dexx says, March 27th, 2008   

Well….

You guys are awesome.

I tried several different things in the recovery console before I read anything, then I read things, which told me to do basically exactly what I’d already done, in slightly different orders. no luck.

Then I read your page, and it made sense, simple, elegant, oh so windows.

Voila.

thanks again!

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prakash says, April 29th, 2008   

thanks

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somnath says, June 13th, 2008   

how can i remove trojan horse virus form computer……….

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akshay says, August 2nd, 2008   

These guys are really great

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Arihant says, August 22nd, 2008   

Press F8
Select the option “Last Good Known Configuration that Worked”
And Windows XP will load Properly

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toni says, September 7th, 2008   

i solve the problem

thankyou so much …………

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jo says, December 1st, 2008   

I’m having the same problem. Tried the usual remedies to no avail. I need your help PLEASE!

I have an old hp, running xp home. Pre-installed, didn’t come with cd. I have floppy drive.

Thanks in advance!

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smack_daddy says, December 21st, 2008   

thanks man
Life saving stuffs

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