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NTLDR is missing

An error message suddenly occurred while I was booting up my computer and I didn't know how to fix it. Luckily, lots of other people have already encountered this problem so a search query at Yahoo! produced lots of leads. This one is specially useful.

Specifically:

2 Check your floppy and optical (CD/DVD) drives for media. Often times, the "NTLDR is Missing" error will appear if your PC is trying to boot to a non-bootable floppy disk or CD/DVD.

Note: If you find that this is the cause of your problem and it's happening a lot, you might want to consider changing the boot order in BIOS so the hard drive is listed first.

3 Check the hard drive and other drive settings in BIOS and ensure they are correct. The BIOS configuration tells the computer how to use a drive so incorrect settings can cause problems, including NTLDR errors.

Note: There is usually an Auto setting for hard drive and optical drive configurations in BIOS which is usually a safe bet if you're not sure what to do.

What that error message meant was that my computer cannot find a certain file necessary to start loading Windows XP. After reading the site mentioned above, I entered the BIOS menu and looked up the Boot section. My Windows XP PC has 3 hard drives (I saved 2 of them from an older PC, one of which has only a 4G capacity. One of my flash drive has just as much storage space), I looked up the BIOS and found that one of the legacy drives has higher priority than my primary drive. After changing the order/priority to the correct one, my computer proceeded to load Windows XP. Problem fixed.

But only after 60 minutes of anxiety filled moments.

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