Boot up from your win2k cd and do a repair that should fix your problem

you should boot your machine with a win2k cd and choose the console edit choice. in the root of your hard drive you should find ntldr and possible another copy with the .bak extension. rename the ntldr to something lame then rename the ntldr.bak to ntldr. reboot - hold your breath I had the same thing happen and this saved my life.

this could be one of the more simpliest thing to sort out, but also it could be a little bit difficult. the easiest way is taking the floppy disk you have inserted in the floppy drive and press any key. but you always can restart the computer with the w2k cd and chose repair the system. Good luck

C your post in the NT forum...

ok this is embarasing. I just got the ntldr is missing error. I went to my other computer and found this sight. Which by the way is verry usefull. I read all your posts. Then i discided that i would try to restart the computer with my win 2k cd. as I start to press the eject button I notice I have a floppy in the a drive. I took the floppy out of the drive pressed the space bar and the computer started up. So be aware the problem could simply be a disk in the a drive.

i just got that message w/ a windows xp machine... and like kirk said it was a floppy in the drive... thank you for mentioning that b/c THAT was a fluke i came across this page... rebooted and it was fine thanks a bunch

I have an IBM laptop that won't recognize any bootable CD on startup, i have several partitions... 1: C Drive = NTFS 2: Ext Dos 2a: Linux Swap 2b: Linux 3: D Drive = FAT32 I was using partition magic in Win2k to resize the partitions, during the process something went wrong there was an error than it told me to press a key to restart the computer... i did... now i have access to CMOS but after that wiht out a boot disk Linux tries to boot up and can't leaving me with "LI_" on the screen. the MBR is damaged but the Partition tables are still ok, know this because fdisk can read them just fine, when booted into dos through a boot disk the drives don't officially exist. I also found a program that reads NTFS drives in dos and it can read my C drive, as well windows 2k setup which i have now on diskettes recognizes that there is win2k on the computer, but to use the recover console i need the sys admin password, and it doesn't exist, or it does but nobody will find it. i am trying to get the files off the FAT32 drive the rest i don't care about. i have tried bootpart.exe this i found on the net but it requires me to lock the drives before it reconstucts the MBR and i can't lock the drives if i can't get to them. is there a way to launch NTLDR manually or do any of you know about FIXBOOT and FIXMBR or will formatting the linux partition help me get back into the computer? Please help me!!!