{"id":671,"date":"2008-12-30T13:30:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T11:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/archives\/671"},"modified":"2011-08-03T09:01:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T07:01:13","slug":"windows-server-2008-ntldr-is-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/archives\/671","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server 2008: NTLDR is missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Couple days ago I <strong>imported<\/strong> one of my VMs into ESX server. This VM was created with VMWare Workstation and itworked fine before. After VMWare Converter was finished I boot up the machine. The boot process <strong>failed<\/strong> and stopped with the message below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"messageBox error icon\"><span>NTLDR is missing Press Crtl+Alt+Del to restart<\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsServer2008NTLDRismissing_AFA7\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsServer2008NTLDRismissing_AFA7\/image_thumb.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"498\" height=\"351\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oeps my <strong>NTLDR<\/strong> boot record was missing or something went wrong during the import. Therefore I mounted the Windows Server 2008 DVD and boot from it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsServer2008NTLDRismissing_AFA7\/image_3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsServer2008NTLDRismissing_AFA7\/image_thumb_3.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"504\" height=\"446\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click \u201cRepair your computer\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsServer2008NTLDRismissing_AFA7\/image_4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsServer2008NTLDRismissing_AFA7\/image_thumb_4.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"504\" height=\"454\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Make sure \u201c<strong>System Recovery Options<\/strong>\u201d finds a Operating System and click Next.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsServer2008NTLDRismissing_AFA7\/image_5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsServer2008NTLDRismissing_AFA7\/image_thumb_5.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"504\" height=\"454\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Systems recovery tool is started and click \u201cCommand Prompt\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsServer2008NTLDRismissing_AFA7\/image_6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsServer2008NTLDRismissing_AFA7\/image_thumb_6.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"504\" height=\"454\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since Windows 2008 or even with Windows Vista (not sure \ud83d\ude41 ) the Windows Setup includes some new tools. We are going use the <strong>bootrec.exe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Execute the following commands:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"icon-list \" style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">\n<li><div class=\"icon16 iconMedia play\"><\/div>bootrec.exe \/FixMbr<\/li>\n<li><div class=\"icon16 iconMedia play\"><\/div>bootrec.exe \/FixBoot<\/li>\n<li><div class=\"icon16 iconMedia play\"><\/div>bootrec.exe \/RebuildBcd<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<p>Close \u201cCommand Prompt\u201d and click Restart<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsServer2008NTLDRismissing_AFA7\/image_7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsServer2008NTLDRismissing_AFA7\/image_thumb_7.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"504\" height=\"433\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windows Server 2008 boot now and I was able to log in now. Changed the network settings and I reboot with success now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsServer2008NTLDRismissing_AFA7\/image_8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsServer2008NTLDRismissing_AFA7\/image_thumb_8.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"504\" height=\"433\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Related links:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/927392#iframe\" target=\"_blank\">How to use the Bootrec.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couple days ago I imported one of my VMs into ESX server. This VM was created with VMWare Workstation and itworked fine before. After VMWare Converter was finished I boot up the machine. The boot process failed and stopped with the message below: Oeps my NTLDR boot record was missing or something went wrong during the import. Therefore I mounted the Windows Server 2008 DVD and boot from it. Click \u201cRepair your computer\u201d Make sure \u201cSystem Recovery Options\u201d finds a Operating System and click Next. Systems recovery tool is started and click \u201cCommand Prompt\u201d Since Windows 2008 or even with Windows Vista (not sure \ud83d\ude41 ) the Windows Setup includes some new tools. We are going use the bootrec.exe. Execute the following commands: Close \u201cCommand Prompt\u201d and click Restart Windows Server 2008 boot now and I was able to log in now. Changed the network settings and I reboot with success now. Related links: How to use the Bootrec.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[644],"tags":[487,485,147,486,159,16],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-windows-server","tag-bootproblem","tag-bootrecexe","tag-howto","tag-problems","tag-startup","tag-windows-server-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1848,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/1848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}