NTLDR is missing - have read other posts

[becaboos]

I have a new Toshiba laptop purchased in Feb.

60 gig hard drive
xp home
512 ram
CD/DVDRW
SD flash drive
There is no A drive

I reformatted and put windows 2000 pro on the computer because I liked it better. This has worked fine for several months but had a few things I messed up. Somehow I removed my documents out of the lower start up menu. I wanted this back.

I used my 2000 professional cd and told it to overwrite not install a new operating system to repair files. When it completed and rebooted I had this message NTLDR is missing press alt ctrl delete to restart.

All of the posts I have seen are regarding NT XP or upgrading from 95 98 to 2000. The biggest thing is that I DO NOT HAVE an A drive. When I press alt ctrl delete it cycles through restarting and never loads anything more than a quick toshiba banner.

and the same message comes back up.

I have burned start up disks for both win 95 to cd and I have also tried to use the 2000 cd and made a boot disk on another computer. The computer isnt reading anything.

I tried pressing all the F keys one each time none bring any menus or options up.

I cant lose the data on the hard drive. I must find a way to bring this back up.

If anyone at all can help me please email me or post. I have all of the messengers and will even call if someone would like to walk me through any of this. thanks

Becky

[sechs]

This is for XP, but should work for 2k, as well:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...b_tol_zldj.asp

[roley]

Don't worry too much dude there are options.

the winXP advice tends to revolve a great deal around using the CD as a repair disk through recovery console or something.

I have used recovery console, but it is difficult to use sometimes.

If you cannot get the advice in this forum to work, then visit:

www.ontrack.com for possible solutions to the data recovery need.

Roley
Black Frog Tech

[dejha]

try booting off the Win2k CD to the recovery console, then use FIXMBR