I have win XP on my other computer. When I start it I comes up with this black screen that says "cannot find NT LDR press ctrl alt delete to restart the computer".

How do I fix this and what is it?

u need the NT LDR. boot to the windows CD and have it fix it

i have this problem several times, i could fix it coping the file NTLDR from my other computer to the "C:\" directory.

Regards

Hey, i know this is an old thred, but i have just got this error, and putting my windows CD in does not work.... it says something along the lines of..."to boot from CD, hit any key", then i get the same message "cannot find NT LDR press ctrl alt delete to restart the computer"does anyone know how i could fix this???

Any help would be muchly appreciated!! thanks in advance

Okkie, i now have an update;

i can get the Win XP CD to work, i have no idea what i am doing i press "r" to repair, it opens Dos, or a program very similar and it says something along the lines of "F:\windows" does anyone know what i type here?

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i can get the Win XP CD to work, i have no idea what i am doing i press "r" to repair, it opens Dos, or a program very similar and it says something along the lines of "F:\windows" does anyone know what i type here?

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I will post one fix now and more tomorrow when I am at work.

Insert your Windows XP CD and restart your computer. At the prompt to press the Enter Key (maybe another key) to enter setup, do that.

The menu along the bottom has R for repair you want to press that.

You will come to a "DOS" Screen It will say Please Select the Windows Installation you wish to log into. More times then not its C:\Windows (Unless you have installed to another directory.) You press the corresponding number for that Install. *may need to press enter after choosing the installation*

You will then be prompted for the Administrator password. Press Enter (Normall the Admin password is blank UNLESS you have changed it or set one during the Windows Installation.)

You will then be at a C:\Windows> here you want to type in
chkdsk /r *then press enter*


Also try looking at this article
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 315233
Windows XP Does Not Start on a Computer That Is Configured for Dual Booting

Or this Article

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Originally posted by conless
Well, what are you trying to do? When you turnen your computer on did it give you that error? or did you change motherboards???

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Also to Conless, Please close your tags Also they are trying to boot into windows. The file that allows the computer to read an NTFS Parition is missing. Yes they get it when they turn on their computer and it boots up. And changing the motherboard has no effect on this. Oh and its not motherboards its motherboard, there is only one in the computer

NTLDR is a critical file to windows bootup it is needed for the computer to boot up properly. If the file is missing from your harddrive:

• create a bootdisk on somebody elses computer (2000,xp and 2003 will do)
  
• make sure NTLDR is on the disk (you may have to show hidden/system files)
  
• boot your computer from the disk
  
• when the command from comes up type

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  copy a:\NTLDR c:\

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I'll remember this because i've had this problem and my solution was a format

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Originally posted by illuzn
NTLDR is a critical file to windows bootup it is needed for the computer to boot up properly. If the file is missing from your harddrive:

• create a bootdisk on somebody elses computer (2000,xp and 2003 will do)
  
• make sure NTLDR is on the disk (you may have to show hidden/system files)
  
• boot your computer from the disk
  
• when the command from comes up type

  code:

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  copy a:\NTLDR c:\

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Hopefully this should work... Good luck

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Also to Conless, Please close your tags Also they are trying to boot into windows. The file that allows the computer to read an NTFS Parition is missing. Yes they get it when they turn on their computer and it boots up. And changing the motherboard has no effect on this. Oh and its not motherboards its motherboard, there is only one in the computer [/size][/font]

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Originally posted by conless
Forgot about the tags
and the when changing motherboardS you can also get this error!
something about the cmos settings, but you will get the ntldr message.

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Hey people thank you all for the support, turns out my BIOS was booting hard drives in the wrong order.....odd, does anyone know how this could have changed? Beairing in mind i am the only one who has used this computer....maybe a trojan horse or something....dunno any advise would again be welcome

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No changing motherboards wont change the way windows boots unless the BIOS on the motherboard isn't detecting the HDD in that case it would say Operating System Not Found

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