Ntldr is missing in vista startup

The message to boot from CD has only started happening since the problem first arose yesterday. Any further suggestions are most welcome! Many thanks. Have you been editing your BIOS? The boot sequence is determined there, not in the PF12 menu.

I'm not aware of ever having editted my BIOS starting to lose my way a bit here Pressed F2 to get into setup - brought up the Phoenix menu. SATA-5 2. SATA-0 3. Does this look right? Try swapping the HDD boot priority section, to put 0 before 5.

Many thanks for your help, Terry and your patience with me finding my way round this problem - much appreciated! Post reply. Technically, one could re-create this installation media with freely-downloadable media from Microsoft namely the Microsoft WAIK kit, a multi-gigabyte download ; but it's damn-decent of Microsoft to make this available to Windows' users who might not be capable of creating such a thing on their own.

Read all info at the website about creating and using it. And the 32bit is what comes normally on a computer, unless 64bits requested. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. LKG Minnesota. I have a refurbished Dell Inspiron with Windows Vista preinstalled. Thanks for your feedback. So I recently upgraded from windows xp to windows7, I went about installing well the wrong way.

I Installed windows 7 from the downloaded file onto a empty hard drive I had attached to my computer. I did this all while xp was still running. Anyway it worked and windows 7 always booted up and worked just fine. So now I had a bunch of xp files and programs associated with my old operating system taking up about 80 gigs or so But I couldn't delete the partition or format this drive in windows7 using administrator tools. So I stuck a xp disk in and told the computer to boot from that and waited till it came up to screen that would let you choose which partition to install windows xp on.

I used this method to delete the partition on the drive. So after exiting the xp setup up with out installing it I told the computer to boot from the drive were win 7 was located and now I keep getting NTLDR is missing errors. I know win7 does not use NTLDR so I am guessing that the drive I have win 7 installed is not designated as having a boot partition on it?

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