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Post by MCMGM on Aug 7, 2008 1:28:59 GMT -5
Okay, my external hard drive was not picking up on my laptop. I followed some site and used a program, (DOS like app.) to get the laptop to recognize the hard drive. I restarted my laptop like I was suppose to. The Acer logo pops up, I expect the Windows screen but I get hit with this:
NTLDR is missing.
I've been looking for a way to fix this for hours and I can't find anything. I don't have a recovery disc (Acer didn't feel the need to send me one) and I don't know what to do. I've already re-set the Bios to default settings and its the same crap.
Can someone help me, please?
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Aug 7, 2008 2:00:35 GMT -5
Visit the ACER page.
Get your warranty started.
And then download whichever utilities you can from their support page.
And it looks by doing that DOS stuff, that you did something wrong.
You running Vista? Although Vista doesn't have NTLDR, if your system was a VISTA machine... and you reverted to XP... it would explain quite a bit.
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Post by MCMGM on Aug 7, 2008 2:05:36 GMT -5
Visit the ACER page. Get your warranty started. And then download whichever utilities you can from their support page. And it looks by doing that DOS stuff, that you did something wrong. You running Vista? Although Vista doesn't have NTLDR, if your system was a VISTA machine... and you reverted to XP... it would explain quite a bit. I didn't revert back to XP. I wanted to, but haven't yet. |
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Aug 7, 2008 2:07:11 GMT -5
VISTA doesn't use NTLDR for start-up.
That is basically the Windows NT shell that you need to start up, runs boot.ini and what not.
Weird.
And the BIOS has nothing to do with it, if your system cannot find that information.
Have you unplugged the external HD and booted it up without it plugged in?
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Aug 7, 2008 2:11:36 GMT -5
What is happening is it thinks your external drive is the boot drive, which is why it cannot find that file.
Unplug it, boot up, and it should be fine.
Now, when you plug in your external, make sure you have it set up as a SLAVE drive.
When you restart the machine, if it gives you the error again, you can always just press F8 and choose to boot up your system from last known working configuration. A system restore type of thing, that will remove whatever DOS related stuff was done.
Hope I've helped some.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Aug 7, 2008 2:21:31 GMT -5
Last thing... after thinking about it, make sure in your BIOS that it isn't booting up off your external drive. Make sure it's booting off of your internal drive (usually Drive C.)  |
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Post by MCMGM on Aug 7, 2008 2:55:39 GMT -5
Last thing... after thinking about it, make sure in your BIOS that it isn't booting up off your external drive. Make sure it's booting off of your internal drive (usually Drive C.) How do I do that? EVERYTHING is unplugged from the laptop. I did everything and still the same crap. |
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Aug 7, 2008 2:57:23 GMT -5
BIOS.
Enter your BIOS and make sure that the boot sequence has C Drive as the first boot.
Then reboot.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Aug 7, 2008 3:08:41 GMT -5
Wait.
Is this External HD even Vista Compatible?
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Post by MCMGM on Aug 7, 2008 3:30:16 GMT -5
The Boot says this:
1: IDE 0: Hitachi
2: Network Boot: D02 D00 Yukon PXE
3. IDE CDROM: Optiarc CD-RW
Etc
And I'm not sure, the person I bought it from used it with Windows. I'm not sure if it was XP or Vista.
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Post by MCMGM on Aug 7, 2008 15:28:52 GMT -5
I called Acer and ended up re-booting Vista. So all my files got deleted, but the laptop works now.
Thanks for the help.
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Post by DSR on Aug 7, 2008 16:09:04 GMT -5
I hate to thread-jack, but I also hate starting new threads, so I got a question: I recently got a flash drive and I put stuff from my computer on it. I plug the flashdrive into another computer, and it went through a little set-up dealy, but that didn't work. Now, this second computer won't read the flash drive at all. What can I do?
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Post by Supersmark is a Troll on Aug 7, 2008 17:02:25 GMT -5
I hate to thread-jack, but I also hate starting new threads, so I got a question: I recently got a flash drive and I put stuff from my computer on it. I plug the flashdrive into another computer, and it went through a little set-up dealy, but that didn't work. Now, this second computer won't read the flash drive at all. What can I do? Is the data corrupted? |
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Post by DSR on Aug 9, 2008 14:45:07 GMT -5
No.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Aug 9, 2008 15:42:49 GMT -5
qiick ..... call the DIR POLICE!!!!
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Post by Blindkarevik on Aug 9, 2008 18:30:05 GMT -5
NTLDR?
She's still missing?
I thought the British Bulldogs found her!
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