[xxKiko]

Here's the story: I turned on my computer one day to play a game on Steam. When I opened the Steam application up, I noticed my game library wasn't showing up. A minute later, I figured out why. My external HD has been set to G: drive instead of its normal D: drive. Steam was set to look for my games in the D: drive. I don't know why my external HD changed drives. It just randomly did.
Well, I wasn't thinking straight that day. Instead of changing the directory in the Steam settings, I stupidly tried to change my external HD's drive letter back to D.

I was successful at first. It changed back to D: and Steam recognized my games. But... then the next time I boot up my computer with my external HD plugged already plugged in (as always), and it keeps saying "NTLDR file is missing. Press ctrl-alt-del to restart." I did what I could, but it still won't stop.

So, now, every time I want to boot up my computer, I have to make sure my external HD isn't plugged in before pushing the power button which is annoying. I sometimes forget to unplug it after turning my computer off. I have to turn the computer back off to unplug and to proceed to my login screen.
Oh and it set itself back to G: and I did change Steam's directory path to G:.

What can I do to get it to stop saying the NTLDR is missing and I can stop having to unplug my external HD before turning my computer on?

I have Windows 7: Home Premium.

Thank you in advance!

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Best Answer

sounds like the computer is set to boot from USB media higher in the boot order than the onboard hard drive. boot into bios or uefi (whatever you have) and either lower the order of the USB hard drive in the boot order, or if you can, disable USB boot all together.

[dsenette]

Best Answer

sounds like the computer is set to boot from USB media higher in the boot order than the onboard hard drive. boot into bios or uefi (whatever you have) and either lower the order of the USB hard drive in the boot order, or if you can, disable USB boot all together.

[Kemasa]

Reboot your computer and see if there is a drive D assigned. I suspect that your assigning the external drive to D is causing a conflict, so you would need to reboot and then change the drive to another letter. I tend to use a letter far down so that there would never be a conflct.

[xxKiko]

Thank you, Dsenette!!! You were right. I was able to figure out how to get the computer stop trying to boot up from my external HD! I really appreciate it!