Jim The Beam has left a new comment on your post "Got back in, ran bat file, but now in reboot cycle...": 

In XP, I acidentaly marked a data drive active when trying to set the drive letter. I could not deactivate it. Neither could I mark my C drive where XP was installed as active.

I tried the solution of removing the data drive and it booted fine. But when I re-install the data drive it still has the ntldr is missing message. I tried using the XP repair console, but it ends up with the same bad message. 

I did find a way to fix my problem.
when booting the bios sellect F12 boot options. Then select master ide drive (instead of C disk). It booted fine. If I looked at my disks with the disk manager it shows the data drive as being active. 
From a command window prompt use diskpart. commands in caps
LIST DISK
sellect the disk you want to not be active
SELECT DISK (NUMBER)
LIST PARTITION
sellect the partition that is active
SELLECT PARTITION (NUMBER)
INACTIVE
that will inactivate the active partition.
I rebooted it worked fine.