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Originally Posted by mtaman02
Rather then create a new thread I and search for the one that was posted by another CD' I'll just post an additional question here.
The Problem: When there is an Ext. Drive attached to the system and I reboot / or cold boot the system I get the following message; NTLDR Missing Press CTRL ALT Delete to Restart. I follow said instruction and get the same message. If I unplug the Ext. Drive and then boot the system everything boots up normally and everything is fine and well when I plug the drive back in, but the message will re-appear each time the system is restarted / booted up.
As of right now I'm searching MS to see if there is a patch to fix this problem. Just curious though if anyone else has had this issue. It's a pain to constantly remember to unplug the drive when booting up.
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Sounds like that ext. drive is trying to load Windows NT/2000/XP. NTLDR is the executable run to start Windows. There should be a way to remove the info from that drive, so it will ignore it, but I don't remember how.
You can change the boot order in your BIOS so it loads from the HDD before external drives. Watch the screen a startup. It should have instructions how to enter BOIS setup.