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Computer went tits up yesterday, when booting up I get this message....


NTLDR is Missing, press cntrl + alt + delete to restart.


Of course this just puts me in a circle. If i remember correctly i need a CD copy of XP to put into the computer and then boot from there. However i dont have a copy of windows.

My question is has anyone run across this and have an easy fix?

If i go into system recovery and reinstall the master boot record (wich should fix it) will it wipe my hard drive?

Should i take a baseball bat to the computer?

I dont have much experience with XP so i was hoping someone here did.

how do you have XP without the disks?

XP came preloaded on the machine. Was suppose to make backup disk (actually sent us CDRW's to do it). Of course never did. There is a restore option that will restore it to factory condition.

But it never did come with any disks.

Give this a shot

http://tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm