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DVA5578
Captain, B757-200

Joined on February 04 2008
Double Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

Stilwell, KS USA

249 legs, 331.3 hours
35 legs, 44.5 hours online
248 legs, 330.0 hours ACARS
2 legs, 2.8 hours event

Posted onPost created on March 30 2010 21:23 ET by Joel Cox

Perhaps somebody will be able to help me out on this issue. My main PC (a laptop) has been out of commission for a while, due to a boot error. When I go to start up the PC, I get a "NTLDR is missing" error. PC spec's are: Dell 1520, Windows Vista Home Premium.

So far, in order to try to fix it I have:
1) Made a boot disk, which didn't help
2) Tried to do a Windows repair, which didn't help
3) Made a repair disk from a website which was designed to help with the error, which didn't help

Anyone else have an idea on how to fix the thing? Thanks for the help in advance.

Joel Cox

Captain, B757-200

DVA4295
Captain, B767-300

Joined on April 05 2007
Online Century Club
Double Century Club

Stratford, CT USA

212 legs, 397.9 hours
194 legs, 368.4 hours online
190 legs, 356.7 hours ACARS
3 legs, 6.7 hours event
19 legs dispatched, 10.0 hours

Posted onPost created on March 30 2010 23:08 ET by John Alusik

Do you have an external hard drive plugged in? I had to fix this exact problem when I was working one day and all i had to do was on plug the external drive. It actually has nothing to do with window, it has to do with your MB boot sequence.

John Alusik

Captain, B767-300

Posted onPost created on March 30 2010 23:10 ET by Joel Cox

No external drive plugged in. Doesn't matter what order I set the boot sequence as either. Its quite frustrating, as I may end up having to just do a fresh install.

Joel Cox

Captain, B757-200

Posted onPost created on March 30 2010 23:14 ET by John Alusik

Don't fresh install, if it was software "Repair" should have fixed it. Have you made any changes to your computer and it started doing this after your change? Did you check to make sure the cable to the hard drive isn't loose?

John Alusik

Captain, B767-300

DVA3355
Senior Captain, B777-200

Joined on July 19 2006
Online Century Club
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Everett 1500 Club
Four Million Mile Club
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"guiding you home..."
Denver, CO USA

1,959 legs, 8,711.6 hours
181 legs, 715.0 hours online
1,891 legs, 8,382.8 hours ACARS
18 legs, 67.1 hours event

Posted onPost created on March 30 2010 23:19 ET by Daniel Hodnik

i am sure you have searched for an answer but this is all over the internet. the following has helped me before.

http://tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm

Daniel Hodnik (DVA3355)

Posted onPost created on March 31 2010 18:23 ET by Joel Cox

John Alusik wrote:

Don't fresh install, if it was software "Repair" should have fixed it. Have you made any changes to your computer and it started doing this after your change? Did you check to make sure the cable to the hard drive isn't loose?

Haven't changed anything in about 2 months, or roughly a month before it started happening. The repair option in the Windows Vista CD didn't help me out at all. All it say was that there was nothing wrong with the installation.

Daniel Hodnik wrote:

i am sure you have searched for an answer but this is all over the internet. the following has helped me before.
Tried that, didn't help me at all, which concerned me. But thanks for offering up some idea's guys.

http://tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm

Joel Cox

Captain, B757-200

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