Thursday, January 21, 2010

NTLDR is Missing, Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

I experienced this problem with one of our windows xp pc here in the office today. Spent 4 hours trying to fix the issue. Search the Internet for a solution but most of the solution offered requires a bootable disk. The pc don't have a floppy drive. Tried all other steps suggestion but none of them work. In the end I was able to fix the problem by myself. Here the the steps I did.

1. Boot to windows xp cd.
2. Press R to enter recovery console
3. Go to the cd drive where your cd is inserted. (mine is d: )
4. Copy the ntldr file from your windows xp cd. Just typed in
a.) cd i386 (it will bring you to d:\i386)
b.) copy ntldr c:\
5. It will tell you that the file is copied.
6. Type exit to restart your pc.

This fixed my problem. Hope I was able to help you fix yours too.