A technician is diagnosing a PC running Windows 7 which has been affected with an "NTLDR is missing" error message. Which of the following command line tools would BEST resolve the problem?

The correct answer is A. Fixboot. NTLDR (NT Loader) is the Windows XP-era boot loader, but in Windows 7 the equivalent error involves a corrupted or missing boot sector. The 'Fixboot' command (run from the Windows Recovery Environment) rewrites the partition boot sector, which is what loads the boot manager…

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AFixboot
BCHKDSK
CScandisk
DDEFRAG

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A
90% (37)
B
2% (1)
C
5% (2)
D
2% (1)

Explanation

NTLDR (NT Loader) is the Windows XP-era boot loader, but in Windows 7 the equivalent error involves a corrupted or missing boot sector. The 'Fixboot' command (run from the Windows Recovery Environment) rewrites the partition boot sector, which is what loads the boot manager. This directly addresses boot-sector corruption. CHKDSK checks and repairs file system errors but does not fix boot sectors. Scandisk is an older DOS-era tool not present in Windows 7. DEFRAG defragments the disk and has no effect on boot errors.

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