NTLDR Is Missing..Please help

I have a HP,Pc M307n running win,Xp 2004 with media center at least I was .Im getting a NTLDR is missing press alt-control-delete to restart...I do not have a recovery disk and I would like to not have to buy one from Hp.Is thare eny way for me to fix this problem? eny help is very welcome and i would be very greateful thanks...

 

Thanks for your post Tim .ive tryed just XP disks and no luck at all i just figurd its because they dident have media center on them.could i take windows 7 or make a recovery disk from another computer with windows 7 and use that.cause i do have that at my disposal.but i have not tried it yet .:confused

 

Only an XP disc will have those files. Vista and & no longer use ntldr.

What was your problem with copying from the XP discs you had? ( I believe even without media center those files should be there)

Also ntldr missing can be caused by several things and doesn't always mean the actual file is missing. Had you changed any hardware on the computer or did it just start one day at bootup?

 

Have a read of this

 

It's my understanding the media center is XP Pro with a few more baubles added.

 

WELL Ive tried the tinyempire site three times and no dice ..I used a flash drive two times and a RW-dvdthe 3rd maybe i did it wrong .Ill try it once more and use a floppy this time.the times ive tried i havent got nothing no change at all the same thing .Ntldr is missing..

 

well the problem is that nothing happens...f10 nothing f8 or R key nothing happens it goes directly too the Ntldr is missing pree ctrl -alt -del to restart..it happend wile playing wurmonline.com it just shut off and when i turnd it on thats ware i was ..the only thing i can get is F1 bios screen i think its called and Esc key works too ive put an xp disk in and it did not do enything..

 

You want to go into the BIOS screen and look for Boot Order. Then you want to make sure that the first item is CD and the second item is Hard Drive. (There should be instructions about using the arrow keys to move items up or down the list on the side of the screen)

That should get the PC to boot from the CD so you can try and copy the files.

 

ok I will def try that I was messing with it the the other day when I was trying to get the file I down loaded from tiny empires website but with no luck but ill give it a nother go..thanks so much for yours and everybody elses help in this matter..:major

 

so still the same no dice i moved the cd drive to 1 and hard drive to 2 and i get the same thing.i tried esc. boot from drive too and selected cd drive nothing.:cry

 

Are you trying to boot from a Microsoft genuine XP disk or something else? If something else, tell us exactly what it says on the disk.
You might be trying to boot from something that is not bootable and no amount of changing drives around is going to allow you to boot from an unbootable disk.

 

Its a Microsoft office XP disk version 2002 and my comp is 2004 dang thats why isent it?