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Ed Rust <> wrote in message news:<>...
> WIN98 se
> 192 m RAM
> 10 G HDD
>
> Father-in-law just used the restore disc on his HP Pavilion to start
> from scratch. After reloading Netscape 7 (and nothing else), he clicked
> on Start/Shutdown/Standby. Now, on restart, he's getting the "NTLDR
> missing - Press any key to restart" error message. He says that
> pressing "Enter", space bar or any other key only results in getting the
> error message again. Restart and pressing F8 key doesn't bring up the
> startup options screen 8( so I'm at a loss on what to do next.
>
> BTW, I'm trying to diagnose by telephone, so all information is
> second-hand.
>
> TIA for any help.
>
> Ed


The only thing I've ever seen cause this is if a diskette is left in
the diskette drive when rebooting. Hope this helps.

Mark