It is a company's policy to shut down all workstations at the end of the day. However, the majority of employees are leaving disks in their workstations and upon start up the next morning they are receiving a `NTLDR is missing' error. Which of the following is a possible solution?

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B. Change the Boot order in the BIOS. The 'NTLDR is missing' error occurs when the system attempts to boot from a non-bootable medium - in this case a floppy or optical disk left in the drive. Changing the BIOS boot order so the hard drive is checked first ensures the system always boots the OS regardless of whether a disk is present, making it a permanent technical fix rather than a procedural one.

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A. Make a daily announcement to remove all disks before departing for the day. A daily announcement relies on user compliance and does not prevent the error technically; users will still occasionally forget.

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C. Make it a part of the evening checks to ensure all disks are removed. Evening checks are a procedural control that still depend on human follow-through and do not address the root technical cause.

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D. Make a company policy that states that it is unlawful to leave disks in the machines. A company policy does not technically prevent the boot error from occurring and still depends entirely on user behavior.

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