Installation Vista error-ntldr is missing

pike · External Since: May 28, 2007 Posts: 3

Need urgent help,

Got from faculty Windows Vista. While rebooting, for a clean installation i
get every time the message: Missing ntldr. press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to reboot.
Boot priority is set to DVD drive. But still same answer. After formating
partition same message is appearing again. Previous OS is Win XP. Coul it be
that, while copying DVD, a boot file is missing?
Please help....

Pike

Rick Rogers · External Since: Aug 19, 2006 Posts: 3178

Hi,

Vista doesn't use ntldr. If it's being called for, that means the mbr was
not overwritten to point to Vista's bootloader and it's still looking for
XP's. Check the system BIOS for a protection setting that disallows writing
to the mbr (bootsector antivirus protection is a common term for it). This
needs to be disabled during setup or Vista will not be able to alter the mbr
correctly.

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"pike" <pike RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Need urgent help,
>
> Got from faculty Windows Vista. While rebooting, for a clean installation
> i
> get every time the message: Missing ntldr. press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to
> reboot.
> Boot priority is set to DVD drive. But still same answer. After formating
> partition same message is appearing again. Previous OS is Win XP. Coul it
> be
> that, while copying DVD, a boot file is missing?
> Please help....
>
> Pike

pike · External Since: May 28, 2007 Posts: 3

Hi Rick,

hope that this will be the solution for my problem. will do that so when
come home.

Thank you

regards

Pike

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Vista doesn't use ntldr. If it's being called for, that means the mbr was
> not overwritten to point to Vista's bootloader and it's still looking for
> XP's. Check the system BIOS for a protection setting that disallows writing
> to the mbr (bootsector antivirus protection is a common term for it). This
> needs to be disabled during setup or Vista will not be able to alter the mbr
> correctly.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "pike" <pike.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:19AE16C8-707E-4F4A-9710-7BDECCD1ED91@microsoft.com...
> > Need urgent help,
> >
> > Got from faculty Windows Vista. While rebooting, for a clean installation
> > i
> > get every time the message: Missing ntldr. press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to
> > reboot.
> > Boot priority is set to DVD drive. But still same answer. After formating
> > partition same message is appearing again. Previous OS is Win XP. Coul it
> > be
> > that, while copying DVD, a boot file is missing?
> > Please help....
> >
> > Pike
>
>

jorgen · External Since: Mar 28, 2007 Posts: 9

Rick Rogers wrote:
> Vista doesn't use ntldr. If it's being called for, that means the mbr
> was not overwritten to point to Vista's bootloader and it's still
> looking for XP's.

It's not in the MBR, but in the partition's boot record.

If you have more than one harddrive, the BIOS might be booting off the
wrong one

John Barnes · External Since: Jun 26, 2006 Posts: 2060

Agreed, or more than one partition on the drive and the wrong one is set
active.

"jorgen" <jorgen DeleteThis @na.invalid> wrote in message
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> Rick Rogers wrote:
>> Vista doesn't use ntldr. If it's being called for, that means the mbr was
>> not overwritten to point to Vista's bootloader and it's still looking for
>> XP's.
>
> It's not in the MBR, but in the partition's boot record.
>
> If you have more than one harddrive, the BIOS might be booting off the
> wrong one

pike · External Since: May 28, 2007 Posts: 3

hi..

had no time these days to install Vista. Did it today. Solved the
problem.....was something wrong with DVD. Anyway, thanks for advise....

"John Barnes" wrote:

> Agreed, or more than one partition on the drive and the wrong one is set
> active.
>
>
> "jorgen" <jorgen.RemoveThis@na.invalid> wrote in message
> news:e%23Ik1hToHHA.588@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> > Rick Rogers wrote:
> >> Vista doesn't use ntldr. If it's being called for, that means the mbr was
> >> not overwritten to point to Vista's bootloader and it's still looking for
> >> XP's.
> >
> > It's not in the MBR, but in the partition's boot record.
> >
> > If you have more than one harddrive, the BIOS might be booting off the
> > wrong one
>
>

jobbin · External Since: May 12, 2009 Posts: 1

A detailed description of the problem and suggested solution at
http://binaryday.com/2009/02/16/how-to-fix-ntldr-missing-error-in-vista/

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akumageorges · External Since: Oct 18, 2009 Posts: 1

Unlike what the last reply say,i'm currently experiency this issue on a
laptop that only ever had vista installed,i'm so desperate right now and
don't what to do,i even formatted my disc. It all started with the
common winload.ex and system missing issue(which forced me to
reformat),and not i'm stuck with nothing

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Malke · External Since: Jan 10, 2009 Posts: 132

akumageorges wrote:

>
> Unlike what the last reply say,i'm currently experiency this issue on a
> laptop that only ever had vista installed,i'm so desperate right now and
> don't what to do,i even formatted my disc. It all started with the
> common winload.ex and system missing issue(which forced me to
> reformat),and not i'm stuck with nothing

Unfortunately, no one knows what the "last reply" said because we don't see
it. I'll explain why below. In the meantime, if you cannot load Windows
after you did a clean install, I would suspect failing hardware. However,
you haven't provided enough information for anyone to give you focused help.
Refer to the "How to Post" section below.

You are not posting on a real forum as you think you are and you didn't
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Usenet, the better way is to set up a newsreader. This is very easy to do
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LG · External Since: Oct 24, 2009 Posts: 1

"akumageorges" wrote:

>
> Unlike what the last reply say,i'm currently experiency this issue on a
> laptop that only ever had vista installed,i'm so desperate right now and
> don't what to do,i even formatted my disc. It all started with the
> common winload.ex and system missing issue(which forced me to
> reformat),and not i'm stuck with nothing
>
>
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Siorai · External Since: Nov 08, 2009 Posts: 1

I do understand the concept behind there being no NTLDR on vista, but
the reasons why you have mentioned make even -less- sense as I've never
had any other incarnations of Windows on this system at all. It's a
single harddrive single partition system as well.

And unfortunately enough for me, my Vista x64 Ultimate Disc happens to
be storage in another state. Oh is this ever wonderful.

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