"eggyineggsile" wrote:
Quote:
> I have a HP Pavilion t3000/t3049.uk desktop which I have had
> from new for about 4 years.
>
> In the past when I have had problems that couldn't be fixed easily I
> have been able to do a clean install from the recovery partition, or
> from the disks HP sent me after the recovery partition failed and the
> recovery discs you burn yourself failed.
>
> I have used both methods without any major problems and all has been
> fine, however, a couple of weeks ago after using my PC the night before
> without problems, I booted it up and it said the NTLDR was missing and
> it wouldn't go any further.
NTLDR is the boot loader in WinXP and not in Vista, and this is
a Vista newsgroup, and your subject line suggests that you dual-boot
WinXp and Vista. Backup and tell us what OS(s) you have and how
many partitions are on the disk and which ones are Primary and which
one of those are set "active" (seen in Disk Management).
*TimDaniels*