NTLDR Missing after restore

I have a compac computer and I was restoring it back to when i updated it to sp2. now when it boots up i get this message the ntldr is missing. I tried using my recovery dis and when it stars to reload the computer it will kick out the dis and a message comes up to turn off the computer.Any suggestions ?



Bill

 

I moved this over to the Xp forum.

 

Boot Failure

Hi,

I have just installed SP2 and discovered that it has for some reason rearranged my boot order and gave me the same NTLDR not found error.

Why would it do that?

Gizmo

 

Gizmo - did you read the link PeteC posted?

 

Sorry for the delay...

Newt,
Sorry for late comeback I have just got back on line after (another) re-location from France to the UK. I' m just a ol' country boy that don't got DSL so it takes a while to get the dialup functioning again in a different country. not helped by misbehaving computer.

Yes, I did read up the lists but couldn't find anything to fit the profile I have.

For the record I had a working (very nearly) perfectly XP Pro - I Install XP SP2 and...

Completely random selection of whether it accepts that there are any IDE devices or not and so whether it boots or not, on a trial session I cold booted six times and got three normal boots and three "What disks? "

BIOS seems normal just windows not listening.

The cursor jumps wildly all over the screen until everything loads completely. (Mouse works fine on wife's SP2!)

Despite several re-installs XP now refuses to acknowledge Zone Alarm or AVG both fresh from the net.

It still hibernates, but corrupts on wakeup. forcing data delete to get going.

I am in favour at this time of removing SP2 - and forgetting about it, thank goodness I cloned the disk first to backup to. (Edit) I know what you're thinking - but the clone is out of the computer as a backup.

Regards,
Gizmo

 

I am really sorry I didn't reply more quickly on an up date on my computer.I have been extremely busy at work. What I done to correct the problem I was having and I really don't understand how it fixed the problem. I copy the ntldr file and the ntdetect file to a floppy from a friend’s computer that had windows xp. When I inserted the floppy in the computer it said invalid boot file and was going to boot from c drive. Once the computer booted up I restored it to the day before I downloaded xp 2. Then I upgraded it to xp 2 and it has worked fine, except for when I sign on I get this www.webcrawl.net in my tool bar that I have yet to fine out where it is coming from. I will try to reply more quickly from now on any post I make. Thanks for all the help.