Installation Vista error-ntldr is missing

Need urgent help,

Got from faculty Windows Vista. While rebooting, for a clean installation i
get every time the message: Missing ntldr. press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to reboot.
Boot priority is set to DVD drive. But still same answer. After formating
partition same message is appearing again. Previous OS is Win XP. Coul it be
that, while copying DVD, a boot file is missing?
Please help....

Pike

Hi,

Vista doesn't use ntldr. If it's being called for, that means the mbr was
not overwritten to point to Vista's bootloader and it's still looking for
XP's. Check the system BIOS for a protection setting that disallows writing
to the mbr (bootsector antivirus protection is a common term for it). This
needs to be disabled during setup or Vista will not be able to alter the mbr
correctly.

Too bad TechArena did not make it clear when relaying your post from their
"forum" to this MS public newsgroup that this is NOT a Vista problem. As
most of us know, NTLDR is NOT a part of Vista at all, and that error will
never appear unless triggered by a poorly-migrated former WinXP installation
on the same computer.

No need to unnecessarily worry the 99.99+% of Vista users who will never see
such a message.

[akumageorges]

Unlike what the last reply say,i'm currently experiency this issue on a laptop that only ever had vista installed,i'm so desperate right now and don't what to do,i even formatted my disc. It all started with the common winload.ex and system missing issue(which forced me to reformat),and not i'm stuck with nothing

Oh, but it is. I've got a Hewlett Packard desktop, 64-bit Windows Vista pre-installed by HP, and I've just started getting the "NTLDR is missing" error message. I know that "I" have certainly never had anything but that pre-installed Vista-64 on the machine.

I do understand the concept behind there being no NTLDR on vista, but
the reasons why you have mentioned make even -less- sense as I've never
had any other incarnations of Windows on this system at all. It's a
single harddrive single partition system as well.

And unfortunately enough for me, my Vista x64 Ultimate Disc happens to
be storage in another state. Oh is this ever wonderful.

[flakebiter]

I have an ntdlr ctl alt del battle about to go down on my sister's old vista hp9000.