NTLDR is Missing : Press any Key to Restart......Stuckkk...!! at 12:10 PM

What is NTLDR?

NTLDR is short for NT loader - a program loaded from the hard drive boot sector that displays the Microsoft Windows NT startup menu and helps Microsoft Windows NT load। So when it goes missing for some reason, your windows cannot load। I use Windows XP on a Pentium 4 PC.

“When your computer starts, the BIOS attempts to find the primary hard drive’s active partition to read the first sector for the MBR (Master Boot Record), it uses that info to load the rest of the OS। For Windows NT4/2k/XP the NTLDR (New Technology Loader) takes it from there। If you get the “NTLDR is missing, press any key to restart” what’s most likely going on is the BIOS either didn’t look for the right drive, didn’t find the right partition, it wasn’t active, didn’t find the MBR, or the MBR didn’t list NTLDR in the right place, or the location of NTLDR changed।”

Cause:
1. Computer is booting from a non-bootable source.
2. Computer hard disk drive is not properly setup in BIOS.
3. Corrupt NTLDR and/or NTDETECT.COM file.
4. Misconfiguration with the boot.ini file.
5. Attempting to upgrade from a Windows 95, 98, or ME computer that is using FAT32.
6. New hard disk drive being added.
7. Corrupt boot sector / master boot record.
8. Seriously corrupted version of Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
9। Loose or Faulty IDE/EIDE hard disk drive cable.



सॉल्यूशन :

Windows XP users

1. Insert the Windows XP bootable CD into the computer.
2. When prompted to press any key to boot from the CD, press any key.
3. Once in the Windows XP setup menu press the "R" key to repair Windows.
4. Log into your Windows installation by pressing the "1" key and pressing enter.
5. You will then be prompted for your administrator password, enter that password.
6. Copy the below two files to the root directory of the primary hard disk. In the below example we are copying these files from the CD-ROM drive letter "E". This letter may be different on your computer.
   
   copy e:\i386\ntldr c:\
   copy e:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\
   
   
7. Once both of these files have been successfully copied, remove the CD from the computer and reboot.

Manual File Re-Patching

This method attempts to copy and replace the corrupted file from the Windows Installation disc to your hard disk. To start, follow these steps:

1. Insert the Windows 2000 or Windows XP CD into your computer as default boot up media.
   
   
2. Enter Windows Recovery Console
   
   
3. At the command prompt, assuming drive D refers to your CD Drive, type in the following and hit Enter:
   
   Press Y when prompted to overwrite any existing file.
   
   
   • copy D:\i386\ntldr C:\
     
     
   • copy D:\i386\ntdetect.com C:\
     
     
     
4. Restart the कम्प्यूटर.