subject: How To Solve ntldr Is Missing" Error [print this page] NTLDR is Missing" Error Occurred when you are Using The Computer, This is very common & hectic problem for the computer user. I saw this problem in many forums & blogs and people asks solutions for the same. So we will discuss about this error in this post. But before discussion we need to know about the NTLDR what exactly it is. Many people use windows OS So everyone need to know about this. When you Start your Computer BIOS Program Works and find the primary hard drive partition to read MBR (Master Boot Record). NT Loader is the Program of your computer which is loaded in hard drive boot sector and when it got corrupted or deleted then NTLDR is Missing" Error occurred . Your NTLDR file is missing or corrupted then you will need to fix this error.
There are so many causes for this error and most common are following
1 Computer is booting from a non-bootable media.
2 Computer BIOS Setting is not proper for hard disk drive
3 Misconfiguration with the boot.ini file.
4 Corrupt NTLDR and/or NTDETECT.COM file
5 Corrupt boot sector / master boot record
6 Virus infections, human errors, power outages
Windows Recovery Console :
Recovery Console is effective tools of Microsoft which can be used to repair errors in Windows XP from starting using the command line.
1 Insert the Bootable Windows CD in your Computer
2 When Windows Setup Screen Appear, Press R
3 Type a number when windows installation required to repair (usually 1) and press Enter.
4 Type the required administrator password and press Enter
5 From the command prompt, copy NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM from the i386 folder of the CD to the root folder of the hard drive.
Example- C: is the hard drive and D: is the CD-ROM drive.
COPY D:I386NTLDR C:
COPY D:I386NTDETECT.COM C:
6 Remove The Windows XP CD from CD Drive and Restart the Computer
Still Having NTLDR Error:
If you are still facing the same problem then go for the PC Support Forums and post your questions in detailed and mentioned that which steps your followed already. You will get many answers from the technology geeks.
Data Recovery with NTLDR error
If you had applied all the above methods and not able to address the situations then you can use the recovery software which is specially designed to cure this problem and you can easily recover your missing NTLDR file. If your data have been deleted due to the NTLDR error and don't want to loose your data. Then you need a third party data recovery tools to protect your hard drive or recover your data in case of NTLDR missing. There are so many hard drive data recovery tools in the market and you can recover your lost data with powerful algorithms.
