On Mar 5, 12:51 pm, Ivan <find.i...******.com> wrote:
> On Mar 5, 12:12 pm, "kookieman" <a...@bbccd.com> wrote:
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> > 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
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> >news:7619f8d8-eb0f-472c-911a-134d614430b4@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
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> > > 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.

Well the answer was too simple!!
Thanks to all who replied.
I don't know what's in the removable hard drive that might be causing
the booting sequence to fail, nor do i know why, all of a sudden, the
bios was looking at it as a first booting device, however I made my
internal hdd the primary booting source and now it works.

Again, thanks to all for your help.


Regard,s

I.