that's strange

These fixes are great but what are the causes of these issues?

My system is set up with 2 harddrives in raid 0. It seems as if everytime windows vista ultimate does a needed update and reboots, it loses NTLDR and cannot boot.

Does anyone know what the issue would be in order to prevent this from happening and taking an additional 15-30 minutes just to get the operating system functional again?

It's quite irritating to me and makes me want to buy a mac >.<


-Frank

Here's a useful link for explaining the ntldr issue, however, doesn't explain what the windows update does to these boot files.

Simple "ntldr is missing" fix with boot floppy, CD-R, or USB flash

i really hate to bring up old threads, but i am having a problem the same as this. First my computer got stuck on the loading screen, the one where it has the loading bars. this happened quite a few times, so i put the original disk in and and did an auto repair. after that i got the NTLDR is missing error. i did all the steps listed in this thread and it seemed to work, but i am still getting stuck on the loading bar screen... i can start in safe mode with no problem, but i am at a stalemate as to what to do now...any suggestions? Please help! I am using vista ultimate. this is happening out of nowhere!

Thanks in advanced!

i did some updates to windows vista premium and when i tried to get back on the computer it wouldnt let me so i thought i needed a new harddrive so got a western digital 320gb sata intalled it and when i tried to install os and all im getting after the gateway splash screen comes on is NTLDR is missing press alt+ctrl+del to restart can anybody help me with this i have tried everything i can think of even updating bios so please help about to throw this notebook against the wall

It appears you are trying to boot off the wrong media, go into your bios' start up options and arrange the boot sequence to cd first and then retry.

It appears you are trying to boot off the wrong media, go into your bios' start up options and arrange the boot sequence to cd first and then retry.

Ultimate User

hi guys i really need help my pc says ntldr missing press alt ctrl del to restart i dont have my vista disc how can i fix it please help

Hi
I have very similar problem. I bought Dell xps with 120Gb hard drive and then later replace with 320Gb hard drive. Installed with vista ultimate 32, everything is fine for 2 months. In one morning, I turn on my laptop and I got the message " NTLDR is missing" ..I tried all the methods on the web posted by many great people.. but could not find the way to solve. Finally once I read your message I remember in that morning, I accidentally touched media direct home buttom and I turned off the laptop until it completely turned on. then I turned on again the laptop and that make my problem.
solution to my problem :

So I turn on media direct button and wait for whole set up is complete and windows vista is automatically OK.

Life is beautiful again.