Craig Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 Hi all,A friend of a friend has told me via text message that he is having problems with his computer after installing Norton Anti Virus.At the moment Windows XP will not boot as it is saying 'NTLDR is missing' on bootup.He only has a restore disk for his computer, so i will lend him a copy of my Windows XP disc so he can boot to the recovery console. At least this way he will have a chance of restoring the missing files without loosing any data.I wont be carrying out the work, so i need to find a beginner friendly guide that i can print out so he can work from. Does anyone know where i can find a guide that i can print out that will show him step by step what to do, and what to restore?Cheers,Craig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwp Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 this any goodhttp://www.windowsforum.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=10374 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted December 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 this any goodhttp://www.windowsforum.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=10374 :blush: I did do a quick search here, but didnt get anything useful, but that helps a lot.I shall print that out along with the ntldr and ntdetect.com commands.Cheers,Craig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 There are many possibilities why that message can occur. When it happened to me some year or so ago, it was that boot.ini contained incorrect information (pointing to the wrong partition).Other possibilities: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen...kd_tro_bohs.aspAnd of course http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22NT...G=Google+Search Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 My opinionHave him launch the recovery console and typefixbootthenfixmbrThis should resolve his problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 Craig can't you print out powerless user guide.http://www.windowsforum.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=10374 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwp Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 Craig can't you print out powerless user guide.http://www.windowsforum.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=10374my first post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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