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Title: XP 32 bit NTLDR missing
Post by: FreeCat on April 11, 2013, 08:20:46 pm

Hi - I have an old Dell 9100 which works fine with 4GB ram and on MB RAID1 SATA with two 750GB Deskstar drives.  Machine and XP work fine, except that after 6 months I got the NTLDR missing message.  I used the Hiren repair disc to boot and that's fine.  But, the Hiren disc does not repair the issue.  Hiren just boots and allows me to get XP going from the hard drive.  Is there some fix I can use.  I made a repair disk when I installed XP but did not have a place to put a system image so I do not have one.  Any suggestions on how I can get rid of this dependence on the Hiren disc for booting?  Thanks much.

Title: Re: XP 32 bit NTLDR missing
Post by: Shane on April 13, 2013, 02:26:53 pm

Did you try any of these yet?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320397

Shane

Title: Re: XP 32 bit NTLDR missing
Post by: FreeCat on June 13, 2013, 06:24:08 am

Solution turns out to be very simple.
You need boot-able distribution disc with OS on it (in this case it was XP, but I think it is good for W7 and maybe Vista, also).
You boot up from the disc.
Go to the Repair Console (which will be a DOS prompt.)
Copy NTDETECT.COM and NTLDR and boot.ini to the C drive one at a time.
then, reboot from you C drive as you normally do.