NTLDR is Missing Windows 2003 Server

Hello All,

The following are the troubleshooting steps that you need to perform if you receive the error message as NTLDR IS MISSING in Windows 2003 server.

Pre-requisites :

For this you need one Floppy Drive, one Floppy and Windows 2003 server bootable CD respected to its installed versions.

Steps to be performed.

1) Reboot the server and check error is still persisting

2) Download the Raid drivers for the Raid controller if you have configured Raid on the server.

3) Write the downloaded Raid drivers to a floppy disk.

4) Connect the Floppy Disk drive to the server and insert the 2003 server bootable CD into the CD drive and reboot the server and then boot with the CD.

5) Press F6 to load the SATA / SCSI Raid Driver

6) when it prompts press S to load the Driver.

7) Follow the onscreen instructions to load the Raid Drivers.

8) Press R to repair the Windows

9) Enter the Administrator password when it prompts.

10) copy E:\i386\ntldr C:\

Note : a) For the servers, which don't have the RAID Configured, Then directly skip from Step 4 to Step 8

           b) E:\ Refers to CD drive. if you have any doubt regarding the drive letter, then type 'map' and press enter to see the drive letters of the specific drive.

11) copy E:\i386\ntdetect.com C:\

12) type exit and press enter.

13) Now your server should be up.

14)After succesful reboot, remove the unnecessary files from C drive and defragment the C drive.




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