NTLDR missing

Last Wednesday, one of my colleague PC suddenly cannot log-in to Windows and system shown as NTLDR missing. First, I guest this problem caused my hardware. So, I have checked on the cable and hadrdisk. However, hardware does not prompt for any error and failure.

After that, I have check again for the jumper setting on the harddisk. The setting is correct. Finally, I have not choose. So, I have go to update the Bios. But the error still cannot settle.

However, I have manage to settled to settled it by replace the ntldr file. Here is the steps how I have do it.

The PC is run under Windows XP

1. Insert the Windows XP bootable CD into the computer.
2. When prompted to press any key to boot from the CD, press any key.
3. Once in the Windows XP setup menu press the "R" key to repair Windows.
4. Log into Windows installation by pressing the "1" key and pressing enter.
5. Enter administrator password.
6. Copy the below two files to the root directory of the primary hard disk. In the below example we are copying these files from the CD-ROM drive letter, which in this case is "e." This letter may be different on your computer.

copy d:\i386\ntldr c:\
copy d:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\

7. Once both of these files have been successfully copied, remove the CD from the computer and reboot.