{"id":376,"date":"2009-02-12T02:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/error-message-windows-failed-to-load-because-a-required-file-is-missing-or-corrupt-msrpc-sys-or-nls-is-missing-when-booting-windows\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:16:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T22:16:23","slug":"error-message-windows-failed-to-load-because-a-required-file-is-missing-or-corrupt-msrpc-sys-or-nls-is-missing-when-booting-windows","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/error-message-windows-failed-to-load-because-a-required-file-is-missing-or-corrupt-msrpc-sys-or-nls-is-missing-when-booting-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Error Message &#8220;Windows failed to load because a required file is missing or corrupt&#8221; (msrpc.sys) or &#8220;NLS is missing&#8221; when Booting Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Problem:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n  <p>Upon booting Windows Vista or Windows 7\/8.x\/10 you receive one of the following error messages:<\/p>\r\n  <blockquote>\r\n    <p><font color=\"#ff0000\">Windows failed to load because a required file is missing or corrupt<\/font><\/p>\r\n  <\/blockquote>\r\n  <blockquote>\r\n    <p>Where the file msrpc.sys is listed.<\/p>\r\n  <\/blockquote>\r\n  <p>Or:<\/p>\r\n  <blockquote>\r\n    <p><font color=\"#ff0000\">NLS is missing<\/font><\/p>\r\n  <\/blockquote>\r\n  <p><strong>Cause:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n  <p>These errors can have multiple causes, but one potential cause when an IDE drive is used is that the&nbsp;drive&nbsp;is a master drive, but is not connected to the end of the IDE cable.&nbsp; Another potential cause is that the drive jumpers are misconfigured.<\/p>\r\n  <p><strong>Solution:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n  <p>Reorient the drive to the end of the cable, if needed, and\/or correct the jumper configuration.<br \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: Upon booting Windows Vista or Windows 7\/8.x\/10 you receive one of the following error messages: Windows failed to load because a required file is missing or corrupt Where the file msrpc.sys is listed. Or: NLS is missing Cause: These errors can have multiple causes, but one potential cause when an IDE drive is used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1817],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2127,2142,2140,2141,2139],"class_list":["post-376","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-vista-win7-8-x-10","lsvr_kba_tag-windows","lsvr_kba_tag-windows-10","lsvr_kba_tag-windows-7","lsvr_kba_tag-windows-8-x","lsvr_kba_tag-windows-vista"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6108,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/376\/revisions\/6108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}