On Mar 5, 12:12 pm, "kookieman" <a...@bbccd.com> wrote:
> Is is a dual boot config? Or was it ever dual boot? And what exactly does
> this docking station offer you? Do you have a product link.
>
> "Ivan" <find.i...******.com> wrote in message
>
> news:7619f8d8-eb0f-472c-911a-134d614430b4@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > I'm getting the error ntldr is missing, though I'm only getting this
> > error when the laptop is sitting on its docking station. The laptop
> > boots normally if it isn't.
>
> > Has anyone come across this issue in the past?
> > Any ideas on how to troubleshoot?
> > It's a dell laptop with a dell docking station.
> > It's been working fine for months. I've been away for a week, and when
> > I came back home, this is what was waiting for me.
>
> > Very frustrating!
> > Please help.
> > The laptop is a latitude d something rather, and it's running vista
> > premium.
>
> > Thanks in advance..



Hi all, and thanks for your quick responses.

It's simply a dell docking station, with extra USB ports, ethernet/
modem devices, and (the reason I use it), dvi/vga outputs, where I
connect two screens onto (as opposed to only having one vga output if
i was to use the laptop without the dock).

I've not made any changes to the bios, or any upgrades/downgrades to
the docking station drivers (in fact, i didn't even install any
drivers for the dock).
I don't know if the dock added any bootable devices. How do I check
this?
I've encountered this issue in the past when a floppy disk was in the
drive, but I don't have a floppy drive, nor does the laptop have any
cds in its cdrom drive.
It's only a single boot and has never been dual boot..


Actually I just checked the docking station properly (it was passed on
to me by a friend), and it has a removable hdd in it.
I'm assuming the bios is trying to boot from it.

I will try changing this, and, if it still fails, remove the hdd and
try again.

I will post my finds.
In the mean time, if anyone can think of anything else, it'd be much
appreciated.


Thanks,


I.