missing NTLDR

[mattsmall]

ya ok i got this error when i started my computer and now i did a clean insall and the firest time i restart my computer i get the same error its pissing me off so much i want to kick my computer. any ideas? tomorrow im going to get a new hard drive and see if it fix's anything.

 

[Direwolf20]

Found this from yahoo search (First 3 pages) -

Do you have a floppy disk in your drive?

What is NTLDR?

Common Problems with NTLDR

Some message board with a couple links down near the bottom

 

[mattsmall]

thanks man for the help

 

[Direwolf20]

Glad to, let us know how it goes

 

[mattsmall]

ok well i got a new hard drive and a new ide cable everything seems to be working fine.

 

[Sid]

ok well i got a new hard drive and a new ide cable everything seems to be working fine.

Kewl. Only two things that I have ever found to cause that error, corrupted MBR and defective HD.

 

[Ice Czar]

and removing the old HDD with the system partition on it
in an unintentional dual boot that they think is a fresh install to the new HDD

see that alot in Data Storage