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ERROR MESSAGE NTLDR press cntrl alt del
My daughter used an external hard drive on my dell desktop computer the other day to save some of her pictures and some music. We run windows XP. The computer worked fine until I turned it off. Now when I turn it on, I get a message that reads "NTLDR is missing, press cntrl alt del". When I press that, the same message comes back again. I tried pressing f8 when starting, but that did not work. I can press f12 and get some information, but I am not quite sure what to do next. Please help as we have so much information stored on that computer. It is a very good computer and I really do not want to make a clean install on it. THank you so much for your help.
shesagordie
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January 16th, 2008 02:00
For the NTLDR is missing error.
Check out the following procedures here and here.
The above should work, if not, then run diagnostic's extended test on the hard drive and prepare for a clean reinstall of XP.
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January 18th, 2008 01:00
shesagordie
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January 18th, 2008 02:00
Not knowing your computer model, but I doubt that you can use an external hard drive to boot the system.
Bev.
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January 18th, 2008 17:00
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