What the HECK is this?

[zioburosky]

REcently,while I'm surfing,my HD keep spinning,the light keeps flashing,I press the Restart button,only to find out this"NTLDR is missing.Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart".After I shut it down and boot again,it's dissaperd.<BR><BR>Can it be link to my new memory install?It's a Kingston Valueram Pc2700 512MB.<BR>

[Ace]

Yes, I've experienced that, only a slightly more extreme example, where the HDD gave up the ghost. I'd say that it's nothing to worry about if it only happens once (I'm sure that's happened to me in a one-off example) but I'd be concerned if it happened again. Which PSU do you have?

[zioburosky]

I've a 410W PSU.<BR>My system is a AMD AthlonXP2800++,Gigabyte GA-7VA with F9 BIOS,2 sticks of Kingston ValueRAM PC 2700(KVR266X64C25)=256MB and a Kingston ValueRAM PC KVR333X64C25/512 which equal to 1 GB of memory.2 optical drive(Aopen DVD-rom,TDK CDRW),2 HD(7200 Rpm and 5400 Rpm),Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB and a NIC.<BR><BR>Sometimes when I defrag my HD(7200),the system just go blank but the HD still running.I press the reset problem and the mysterious message appear.The only way to get rid of it is shut down the system and boot it again.

[Ace]

My instant response from my experience is to say backup your data and watch the HDD, but I'm not sure (probably my pessimism)... do you know what voltages your PSU is giving?<BR><BR>I just did a little search and found <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm">here</a>:<BR><BR>Computer is booting from a non-bootable source. <BR>Computer hard disk drive is not properly setup in BIOS. <BR>Corrupt NTLDR and/or NTDETECT.COM file. <BR>Misconfiguration with the boot.ini file. <BR>Attempting to upgrade from a Windows 95, 98, or ME computer that is using FAT32. <BR>Seriously corrupted version of Windows 2000 or Windows XP. <BR>Loose or Faulty IDE/EIDE hard disk drive cable. <BR><BR>We can quickly go down that list:<BR><BR>Computer is booting from a non-bootable source. NO.<BR>Computer hard disk drive is not properly setup in BIOS. NO.<BR>Corrupt NTLDR and/or NTDETECT.COM file. MAYBE<BR>Misconfiguration with the boot.ini file. NO.<BR>Attempting to upgrade from a Windows 95, 98, or ME computer that is using FAT32. NO.<BR>Seriously corrupted version of Windows 2000 or Windows XP. MAYBE<BR>Loose or Faulty IDE/EIDE hard disk drive cable. DOUBT IT.<BR><BR>So just check your IDE cable and possibly swap it with a different one (I doubt that's the issue), you could have a little look at the boot.ini if you like but that would mean it would consistently refuse to boot.<BR><BR>To put new NTLDR/NTDETECT.COM files in there:<BR><BR>Also taken from above site:<BR><BR>Insert the Windows XP bootable CD into the computer. <BR>When prompted to press any key to boot from the CD, press any key. <BR>Once in the Windows XP setup menu press the "R" key to repair Windows. <BR>Log into your Windows installation by pressing the "1" key and pressing enter. <BR>You will then be prompted for your administrator password, enter that password. <BR>Copy the below two files to the root directory of the primary hard disk. In the below example we are copying these files from the CD-ROM drive letter "E". This letter may be different on your computer.<BR><BR>copy e:i386
tldr c:<BR>copy ntdetect.com c:<BR><BR><BR>Once both of these files have been successfully copied, remove the CD from the computer and reboot. <BR><BR>--<BR>You can probably also just do a repair install of Windows, but you may as well try above first. If that doesn't work I'd try a repair of Windows XP. If you're STILL having issues, then... well, it looks like it's either a big Windows lissue (full format/reinstall) or a hardware HDD issue (caused by PSU?). <BR><BR>Anyway, good luck - hope this is of some help.

[zioburosky]

Yeahp,my hd finaly kick the bucket....it cannot run format and cannot install window probaly.I just get a 80GB and use the old one as backup.