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"NTLDR IS MISSING" (Win XP-3)

April 30th, 2012 - 08:20 am ET by Barry Bruyea | Report spam
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This morning when I booted my desktop computer the initial screen
displayed, disappeared an then a single line appeared on the screen,
"NTLDR Is missing." I rebooted the computer and the same thing
happened. I left it for about ten minutes, rebooted again and it was
OK. My Boot drive as a Maxtor 80gig SATA drive. Any ideas as to what
may have caused this? I have two other drives.
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#1 David H. Lipman
April 30th, 2012 - 08:26 am ET | Report spam
From: "Barry Bruyea"

This morning when I booted my desktop computer the initial screen
displayed, disappeared an then a single line appeared on the screen,
"NTLDR Is missing." I rebooted the computer and the same thing
happened. I left it for about ten minutes, rebooted again and it was
OK. My Boot drive as a Maxtor 80gig SATA drive. Any ideas as to what
may have caused this? I have two other drives.



Open a command prompt and type; CHSKDSK /F

When it indicates it will do a Check Disk upon reboot agree and then reboot.


Dave
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#2 Ken
April 30th, 2012 - 12:32 pm ET | Report spam
Barry Bruyea wrote:
This morning when I booted my desktop computer the initial screen
displayed, disappeared an then a single line appeared on the screen,
"NTLDR Is missing." I rebooted the computer and the same thing
happened. I left it for about ten minutes, rebooted again and it was
OK. My Boot drive as a Maxtor 80gig SATA drive. Any ideas as to what
may have caused this? I have two other drives.



In addition to what David suggested, it could be a sign of a failing
HD. I would clone that drive to another ASAP.
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#3 Ken Springer
April 30th, 2012 - 12:41 pm ET | Report spam
On 4/30/12 10:32 AM, Ken wrote:
Barry Bruyea wrote:
This morning when I booted my desktop computer the initial screen
displayed, disappeared an then a single line appeared on the screen,
"NTLDR Is missing." I rebooted the computer and the same thing
happened. I left it for about ten minutes, rebooted again and it was
OK. My Boot drive as a Maxtor 80gig SATA drive. Any ideas as to what
may have caused this? I have two other drives.



In addition to what David suggested, it could be a sign of a failing
HD. I would clone that drive to another ASAP.



+1 This is what happened to me a couple years ago.

Also, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318728 How to troubleshoot the
"NTLDR Is Missing" error message in Windows 2000

http://forums.techarena.in/windows-.../94795.htm

There's a lot of web pages about this message.


Ken

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#4 Peter Foldes
April 30th, 2012 - 05:46 pm ET | Report spam
"Barry Bruyea" wrote in message
news:
This morning when I booted my desktop computer the initial screen
displayed, disappeared an then a single line appeared on the screen,
"NTLDR Is missing." I rebooted the computer and the same thing
happened. I left it for about ten minutes, rebooted again and it was
OK. My Boot drive as a Maxtor 80gig SATA drive. Any ideas as to what
may have caused this? I have two other drives



Barry

Aside from all the answers so far read the following

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm

JS
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#5 VanguardLH
April 30th, 2012 - 06:23 pm ET | Report spam
David H. Lipman wrote:

From: "Barry Bruyea"

This morning when I booted my desktop computer the initial screen
displayed, disappeared an then a single line appeared on the screen,
"NTLDR Is missing." I rebooted the computer and the same thing
happened. I left it for about ten minutes, rebooted again and it was
OK. My Boot drive as a Maxtor 80gig SATA drive. Any ideas as to what
may have caused this? I have two other drives.



Open a command prompt and type; CHSKDSK /F

When it indicates it will do a Check Disk upon reboot agree and then reboot.



Wouldn't "chkdsk /r" be a better choice?
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