ntldr missing while trying to boot from iso cd

bigjay · 01-19-2009, 12:12 PM

Ok well my setup at the moment is 500gb sata hard drive. with a cd-rw drive plugged into the ide slots on my motherboard. i have burned the net install iso of fedora 10 onto a disk and im trying to boot from it to install it on my sata hdd. when i start up my computer and i get to the part where its supposed to say boot from cd it gives me the ntldr is missing error any help would be appreciated.

mostlyharmless · 01-19-2009, 02:15 PM

"ntldr is missing" is a Windows boot error, presumably coming from whichever disk your bios thinks it is supposed to boot from first. So...I can only conclude
(1) check the bios order that you're booting off the CD drive first,
(2) you have a broken Windows bootloader on your sata disk or you burned the net install incorrectly.

bigjay · 01-19-2009, 02:47 PM

ok so suppose the bootloader on my sata is broken how do i go about fixing it?

yancek · 01-19-2009, 03:33 PM

If you are using xp, use your xp cd, enter "R" (for recovery?) in setup, select xp from list, enter password (if any), enter FIXMBR, if that doesn't work enter "FIXBOOT"

If you are not using xp, let us know what you are using.

bigjay · 01-19-2009, 03:57 PM

im currently using vista. but i found out what the problem was. i was burning my iso's with nero and that dumb crappy program was burning it wrong. problem solved i have it installing right now ill keep you guys posted.