re: NTLDR missing error...on a Win98 Station!
Friday, May 3, 2002 at 11:18 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by BCS
(48 messages posted)
I already read all of that information in my research of the problem. It is not
applicable to my situation, since these are school computers, running Win98. They
have always been Win98.
Thanks, anyway.
On Friday, May 3, 2002 at 10:53 am, Brian wrote:
>usually that is the cause when i floppy is still in the drive, pop it out and restart,
>it then goes away.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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