Need to find the NTLDR on my emachine

You're getting the "NTLDR is missing" message ??? Verify that your computer hard disk drive is properly set up in the BIOS / CMOS setup. Check the hard drive cable - disconnect and reconnect. It's also possible your computer's hard disk drive may have a corrupt boot sector and/or master boot record (MBR). These can be repaired through the Microsoft Windows Recovery console that you tried by running the fixboot and fixmbr commands.

A couple of things.

If the system has a floppy diskette drive, ensure that no diskette is in the drive. (I know it sounds simple but ...)

If no floppy drive issue, then run diagnostics on the hard drive. The drive may be failing.

Last you can try booting to the XP CD enter recovery console, and run the command: CHKDSK /R, then reboot.

My impression, if no floppy drive issue, then failing hdd