Re: NTLDR is missing on bootup

ms <ms@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:53jhohF1skm36U3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

W2K/SP4

My install has been rock-solid for about a year. I practically never
install anything, mainly use small executables, no problems.

I have net browsing patterns I used for years in W98SE and now W2K, no
funnies there, I browse with images/javascript disabled normally. I only
use Firefox, Xnews, DUN.

Cold boot each AM. Clean trash each shutdown, same every day.

Yesterday was a typical day, usual sites, saved usual text, edited usual
text. Absolutely nothing unusual or abnormal.

This morning, on bootup, black screen before BIOS display: NTLDR is
missing. Can't boot up,

1. Why, out of nowhere, does this happen?

2. How to fix it?

TIA

ms

Thanks to all, it's fixed, posting with it now.

I did a Google search for "NTLDR is missing", led to lots of interesting
stuff, but mainly downloading a repair file that created a repair floppy
with ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini on it.

With the repair disk, it booted up fine.

I was going to copy those three files into my C root, but noticed there was
no NTLDR file there! Truely it was missing.

So I just copied that single file into C, that fixed it. Afterword, I
copied my actual ntdetect.com and boot.ini files to the repair disk and
tested it, it works that way too.

Famous last words, create a real W2K boot disk, back up data, etc.

One question- with my benign computing habits, what could likely have
deleted the NTLDR file from C to cause the problem?

ms
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