NTLDR is Missing

So i unplugged my IDE harddrives today to plug in my cuzins and install XP on it for him and when i went and plugged back in mine it told me

NTLDR is missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

and when i restart that keeps showing up

help anyone??




sorry if its in the wrong section . =/

 

Causes:

1. Computer is booting from a non-bootable source.
2. Computer hard disk drive is not properly setup in BIOS.
3. Corrupt NTLDR and/or NTDETECT.COM file.
4. Misconfiguration with the boot.ini file.
5. Attempting to upgrade from a Windows 95, 98, or ME computer that is using FAT32.
6. New hard disk drive being added.
7. Corrupt boot sector / master boot record.
8. Seriously corrupted version of Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
9. Loose or Faulty IDE/EIDE hard disk drive cable.
10. Failing to enable USB keyboard support in the BIOS.

Windows XP users

1. Insert the Windows XP bootable CD into the computer.
2. When prompted to press any key to boot from the CD, press any key.
3. Once in the Windows XP setup menu press the "R" key to repair Windows.
4. Log into your Windows installation by pressing the "1" key and pressing enter.
5. You will then be prompted for your administrator password, enter that password.
6. Copy the below two files to the root directory of the primary hard disk. In the below example we are copying these files from the CD-ROM drive letter, which in this case is "e." This letter may be different on your computer.

copy e:\i386\ntldr c:\
copy e:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\

7. Once both of these files have been successfully copied, remove the CD from the computer and reboot.

 

You can do a windows repair with your XP cd. When you get into the first blue screen there's an option:

"To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R."

Do that it will reinstall the XP system files and save your files and settings.

Edit: Eh dream got to it first while i was writing this.

 

dam man thanks alot both of yu i gota find my XP disk to do this . but thanls alot dudes


loll . i fond da problem the flippin IDE cable is no good cuz when i nplugged by slaved HD it started working perfectly lol . Thanks btw