boot problem

**little ste** · 6th February 2003

hiya, i'm running 98se but on start up it reads then hangs after

verifying DMI pool data ........

NTLDR is missing
press any key to restart

but it doesnt restart, wont switch off.

anyone have any suggestions?

any help is a great help
thanx

ste

**Violator** · 6th February 2003

That error usually occurs on an NT/2000/XP machine when it cannot find the NTLDR file which is required at bootup. Is this your normal drive you're using?. And have you tried to upgrade to 2000/XP?

**little ste** · 6th February 2003

yes this is my usual drive that i'm using and i did try and install xp a few months ago, wots happened is i've added a second hdd formatted it then scandisc'd it then i thought i'll scandisk my first drive all went ok till i switched it off.....now all i get is the missing NTLDR......

can i get this missing file or should i lose it all and format?

cheers

**Aido** · 6th February 2003

You may get away with just booting off a CD / floppy to a DOS prompt and replacing the boot record with 'fdisk /mbr'

If that fails you could try the 'sys a: c:' command...

**little ste** · 7th February 2003

Thanx

I dont understand why but by changing the boot sequence to
C only seems to have worked.

cheers

ste

**Mr_Flash** · 7th February 2003

Sound's like there is a floppy disk in the drive and it's trying to boot off that.

You'd be suprised but that is quite a common problem

**Nikki** · 15th February 2003

Originally posted by little ste
hiya, i'm running 98se but on start up it reads then hangs after

verifying DMI pool data ........

NTLDR is missing
press any key to restart

but it doesnt restart, wont switch off.

anyone have any suggestions?

any help is a great help
thanx

ste

go to your bios settings and see what is selected for boot up, click boot from cd or disk whichever you have and reisntall a fresh new windows