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by ghs74 1 view

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my friend today encounter a problem while attempting to start her laptop
a "NTLDR is missing" error message had appear and she has v important files on her hard drive .... my Q is is there any possibility she can safley extract her files ??? and if the cause of her problem was Corrupt boot sector / master boot record will she loose her data after fixing the corrupted sector??!

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by w2ktechman

I have found that the data is intact and available if I slave the drive.
Often the ntldr is missing or corrupt occurs after MS updates, program installs, etc.
My suggestion is to try to backup the data, then boot to the Windows recovery (win install cd) and try to recover the system (check system files).
often the system will come back from this error, but make sure to back up the data before attempting to fix it.

by ghs74

thank u for the reply ... but how to backup data while the system is not running??

by charliespencer

Most of the time when I see this someone has left a floppy in the drive and the system is trying to boot from it.

by w2ktechman

since I have not had a floppy in a system here (except external USB), so I have not seen that error in a few years. Thanks for reminding me.

Also, if the system can boot to a cd, and the cd is not quite bootable (but may appear to be by the system) this can occur as well.

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