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    Nino_1
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    Hi, After installing Windows XP Pro, After activation of the software it works for about two days and then the error message appears -- NTLDR Missing Please Press Ctrl Alt Delete to restart your computer. Has anyone seen this before ?? Thanks Tony

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      Hi, After installing Windows XP Pro, After activation of the software it works for about two days and then the error message appears -- NTLDR Missing Please Press Ctrl Alt Delete to restart your computer. Has anyone seen this before ?? Thanks Tony

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      Matt Newman
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      2TallTony wrote: Has anyone seen this before ?? Yes, basically something/someone has deleted the NT Loader (Actually thats a guess, but it makes sense so it should be right) The only way I've seen around it is to reinstall. Matt Newman
      Sonork: 100:11179 "Battleship, was the first game that taught you to lie" - Zachery

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        Hi, After installing Windows XP Pro, After activation of the software it works for about two days and then the error message appears -- NTLDR Missing Please Press Ctrl Alt Delete to restart your computer. Has anyone seen this before ?? Thanks Tony

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        Michael Dunn
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        The boot drive needs three files for NT to boot: NTLDR, BOOT.INI, NTDETECT.COM. NTLDR must've been deleted --Mike-- Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber Ericahist updated Aug 30!

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          Hi, After installing Windows XP Pro, After activation of the software it works for about two days and then the error message appears -- NTLDR Missing Please Press Ctrl Alt Delete to restart your computer. Has anyone seen this before ?? Thanks Tony

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          Mike Dimmick
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          My sister did this recently on her home computer, and she's an MS Exchange support tech... Floppy disks formatted with Windows 98 and later (IIRC) report 'Boot: Missing NTLDR' if they haven't got system support files on.

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            Hi, After installing Windows XP Pro, After activation of the software it works for about two days and then the error message appears -- NTLDR Missing Please Press Ctrl Alt Delete to restart your computer. Has anyone seen this before ?? Thanks Tony

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            Sarvesvara BVKS Dasa
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            2TallTony wrote: Has anyone seen this before ?? My scenario was.... I had the PC with 2000, XP (i had problems in both), when I try to boot my PC, with a floppy inside the floppy drive, this message comes. Just remove the floppy and then continue booting, it works fine. - This may not be a solution or a fix to a problem, but was just trying to eliminate the 'worst case' option I faced... I was born intelligent
            Education ruined me!.

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              2TallTony wrote: Has anyone seen this before ?? My scenario was.... I had the PC with 2000, XP (i had problems in both), when I try to boot my PC, with a floppy inside the floppy drive, this message comes. Just remove the floppy and then continue booting, it works fine. - This may not be a solution or a fix to a problem, but was just trying to eliminate the 'worst case' option I faced... I was born intelligent
              Education ruined me!.

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              Well, I found what the problem was, I created the partition using a Win98 boot disk through FDISK, I guess when this is done the OS gets a little confused between FAT32 and NTFS file system format. The problem was taken care of by booting from the CD and formatting with the util built into the WinXP build. Thanks All for your helpful replies. Tony

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