I have the hp laptop with Vista Basic installed. Two days back my Vista got some problem and it was hanging only by showing cursor on black screen. Then I installed XP on my machine. Got a backup of all data on some usb hard disk. Then I thought of recovering the Vista using System Recovery disks which came with laptop. I did spend yesterday's night to do all recovery and now in morning when I told to click on 'Finish' button to restart the computer ; it restarted only to say 'NTLDR is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart' I am now deadlocked. I can't go back to XP neither to Vista. I searched on several forums regarding this error but every solution is associated with XP operating System not with Vista. It seems like though after doing Vista System Recovery; laptop is referring to NTLDR of XP which is not in place. I don't want to install XP again. Any thought on this bloody Vista? ~Mayur

you`ll need to restore it from xp cd get into recovery console from the cd, and after entering requested info, write this: copy E:\i386\ntldr C:\ntldr just replace E with the cd-rom drive letter and C with the windows partition drive letter press enter restart Cheers our patience is big

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