re: NTLDR missing error...on a Win98 Station!
Friday, May 3, 2002 at 10:53 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Brian
(67 messages posted)
usually that is the cause when i floppy is still in the drive, pop it out and restart,
it then goes away.
Short for NT Loader, a program loaded from the hard drive boot sector that displays
the Microsoft Windows NT startup menu and helps Windows NT load.
Often a user will see the message "NTLDR is Missing" after attempting to install
Windows 2000 or Windows XP, or upgrade a Windows 95-based or Windows 98-based computer
to Windows 2000 or Windows XP. The message appears after the first reboot. This occurs
only if Windows 95 or 98 has been installed on a drive with the FAT32 file system.
To correct the problem, the user must boot the computer with a Windows 95 or 98 Startup
diskette or another bootable diskette with sys.com on it. Then, at the "A:\>" prompt,
type "sys c:" and press "enter." A "System Transferred" prompt should appear and
then the user must reboot the computer without the diskette.
On Friday, May 3, 2002 at 9:37 am, BCS wrote:
>This happens every semester and I can never figure out why:
>
>The students are learning about the what happens when the system is booted with
a
>floppy disk in the drive. Most of them get the usual message, but several get the
>message:
>
>"NTLDR is missing..."
>
>Now, these are Win98 stations, NOT NT stations! The floppies are brand new. I don't
>get it.
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