I have w8.1 on a new drive J: It wont boot directly with the above message. There is an original c:/D; that held xp home which I want to remove. If I opt to use the boot menu and select this old drive it boots Ok straight into W8.1 on the J: drive. If I do this selecting to boot from the new drive it fails to boot . I have tried searching for NTLDR missing fixes - but these are all for W 200, XP . I have tried downloading a fix fromKB/320397 for W 8.1 . I obtained the file BCupdate2 and ran bcupdate2.exe J: /F in the command window - it did nt fix the problem. Where do I go now. I have no idea where to look for the NTLDR or boot.ini files if they exist in W8.1 Will EasyBCD allow me to fix this if there are files missing? Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question. Anonymous 2013-11-12T16:52:05+00:00 It is probably Dynamic because you have more than four primary partitions on the drive. If you want to do that, you would need to be installing in UEFI, which is almost not limited as to number of partitions or if running in Legacy mode, make your 4th partition an extended partition so you can use logical partitions. You have two partitions with drive letter D: -- should not be possible. In the image, you have used the E: partition for your boot files. If you ever had XP installed, somewhere on the system, even another drive, there might be something looking for it. I am not that familiar with how Dynamic drives work, but you might want to convert it back to basic. Dynamic drives are normally used for RAID setups. 0 comments No comments It is probably Dynamic because you have more than four primary partitions on the drive. If you want to do that, you would need to be installing in UEFI, which is almost not limited as to number of partitions or if running in Legacy mode, make your 4th partition an extended partition so you can use logical partitions. You have two partitions with drive letter D: -- should not be possible. In the image, you have used the E: partition for your boot files. If you ever had XP installed, somewhere on the system, even another drive, there might be something looking for it. I am not that familiar with how Dynamic drives work, but you might want to convert it back to basic. Dynamic drives are normally used for RAID setups. Anonymous 2013-11-12T07:49:30+00:00 This is how it looks like at the moment: At some point Windows decided to convert all of my partitions to dynamic, but I still had the problem before that happening. Maybe I should try installing the Windows again, and deleting E while at it, so it doesn't have any other partition to try to use? 0 comments No comments This is how it looks like at the moment: At some point Windows decided to convert all of my partitions to dynamic, but I still had the problem before that happening.

Maybe I should try installing the Windows again, and deleting E while at it, so it doesn't have any other partition to try to use? Anonymous 2013-11-12T06:49:53+00:00 Since NTLDR is the XP bootloader, you should not be seeing it if you are not Dual Booting Windows 8 and XP. Since you appear to be using Legacy (MRB) installs, the system will boot to the first active directory it comes to depending on the Drive Priority in the Bios. If you remove a drive and replace it later, it does not go back to the original configuration, unless it is the only one. If you could attach a snipping tool picture of your Disk Management window showing the partitions, it would be helpful. 0 comments No comments Since NTLDR is the XP bootloader, you should not be seeing it if you are not Dual Booting Windows 8 and XP. Since you appear to be using Legacy (MRB) installs, the system will boot to the first active directory it comes to depending on the Drive Priority in the Bios. If you remove a drive and replace it later, it does not go back to the original configuration, unless it is the only one. If you could attach a snipping tool picture of your Disk Management window showing the partitions, it would be helpful. Anonymous 2013-11-10T21:10:38+00:00 I have a similar problem, I have installed both Windows 7 and 8.1 on my hard drive ( 8.1 was installed second). 7 is on E and 8.1 is on C . However in Disk Management C is determined as 'Boot' and is NOT Active, but E is 'System' and is Active. The " NTLDR is missing error" appears only after I change the Active partition from E to C. I do so from Diskpart in CMD(Admin). My end goal is to completely remove the Win 7 partition i.e format it, but I am unable to do so at the moment because it's marked as 'System'. So far I've tried: Running System Repair - unsuccessful, one time it says that it is done, reboots, and I still have the error, another it just shows that it has failed. Searched for a fix, but the only ones that I find are for Win XP and/or older, and they want me to copy NTLDR and NTdetect.exe to the partition containing Windows 8.1 . I can boot Windows 8.1 back if I return the Active partition to E from Diskpart in the Recovery Console. PS Windows 7 is removed from boot choices/options (i.e from boot in msconfig). PS2 Windows 8.1 does not seem to have any of the said files: Ntldr Ntdetect.com Boot.ini Not visible to me at least. Thanks! 0 comments No comments I have a similar problem, I have installed both Windows 7 and 8.1 on my hard drive ( 8.1 was installed second). 7 is on E and 8.1 is on C . However in Disk Management C is determined as 'Boot' and is NOT Active, but E is 'System' and is Active. The " NTLDR is missing error" appears only after I change the Active partition from E to C. I do so from Diskpart in CMD(Admin). My end goal is to completely remove the Win 7 partition i.e format it, but I am unable to do so at the moment because it's marked as 'System'. So far I've tried: Running System Repair - unsuccessful, one time it says that it is done, reboots, and I still have the error, another it just shows that it has failed. Searched for a fix, but the only ones that I find are for Win XP and/or older, and they want me to copy NTLDR and NTdetect.exe to the partition containing Windows 8.1 . I can boot Windows 8.1 back if I return the Active partition to E from Diskpart in the Recovery Console. PS Windows 7 is removed from boot choices/options (i.e from boot in msconfig). PS2 Windows 8.1 does not seem to have any of the said files: Not visible to me at least. Anonymous 2013-10-31T17:55:01+00:00 Hi, This problem may occur if the basic input/output system (BIOS) on your computer is outdated, or if one or more of the following Windows boot files are missing or damaged: Ntldr Ntdetect.com Boot.ini To resolve this issue, verify that the BIOS on your computer is new version. Thanks & Regards, Sreeram. 0 comments No comments This problem may occur if the basic input/output system (BIOS) on your computer is outdated, or if one or more of the following Windows boot files are missing or damaged: To resolve this issue, verify that the BIOS on your computer is new version. Thanks & Regards,