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NTLDR missing

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i use always the latest acronis with latest builts
at the moment acronis home 2011 (built 6957)

i have images of a crashed computer
images of Drive-C of a windows XP Pro computer who is not able to start windows
anymore

i recovered this Drive-C with the latest image and get at startup the NTLDR missing message

when i tried to recover this C-Drive with older images i always get same error at start up

this happened with other computers who crashed in the recent past as well

i really cant see the problem

fact is that the images were created with acronis 10 and recoveres by acronis 2011

but this shouldnt be a problem...??

or do i really have to create the images "sector by sector" in the future...

thanks for any hint

regards
ray, switzerland

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No, doing sector by sector images is not the right path.

I assume your computer is not bootable at all.

Use your windows installation CD or download a corresponding recovery console CD image and create one.
http://www.ehow.com/how_4813188_repair-missing-ntldr-windows-xp.html

When do you "disk and partition" images, make sure you select the entire disk (not only the system partition). Non-stop or file backups will not do this for you.

Once you have repaired your installation, post a screen capture of your disk management console here. We will look at where your system partition is. (right click on My Computer Icon, choose manage > storage > disk management

First you might want to check what drive is designated in the BIOS from which to boot. correct this setting if it doesn't ppoint to the right (hard)drive.

Also, when you restored, did you make sure you were restoring to the correct harddisk? The drive letter assignments won't necesarily be the same when you use the boot CD as the assignments inside Windows.

Also make sure the booting partition is set Active (this is usually the Windows partition).

'ntldr is missing' is windows message, so MBR found the (active) windows partition and loaded its boot sector code. And only then it searched for ntldr and failed.

Not exactly correct - the message "NTLDR is missing" is contained in the first sector of every partition that was formatted by Windows XP. So if you boot to the wrong partition you will see that message. That most likely happens if the wrong partition is set as "Active".

Here's an illustration from Disk 2, which contains two NTFS data partitions, neither of which is Active:

Here's the first sector of the second partition in a hex editor (Temp Files (E:)):

If one sets either of these partitions "Active" and then boots to it, you'll see the error message "NTLDR is missing".

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Mark is right onthe money and it explains why I've had cases where restarting the BIOS to the correct drive is all that was necessary to make a machine bootable after a restore when ntldr missing messsage came up.

Hello all,

Thank you for posting and your help.

Just in case, we have a Knowledge Base article that shows how to fix issues related to NTLDR is missing -

 - Windows Fails to Boot With "NTLDR is missing"

If you need additional help, please let me know.

Thank you.