**fixed** Thanks!

[sohcrates]

Power went out last night, then flickered a bunch of times.

My main box stayed up thanks to my UPS, but my PIII 450 is down for the count.

Computer runs win2k. POSTS fine, detects cd-roms, detects Promise ULTRA100 ATA card, detects Maxtor 30gb drive on promise controller,

*BUT* right after PROMISE bios is shown, i get the following:

BOOT: Couldn't find NTLDR
Please insert another disk

I've seen this countless times before, but can't seem to recall how i fixed it in the past!

Any ideas that don't involve re-installing and trying to recover data? Thanks!

 

[boyRacer]

Hmmm... no idea what your problem is but check here... the only time i got that crap was when i was trying to reinstall XP but then my system kept restarting... i thought it was my PS... its was just my CPU didnt like a higher vcore even at default speed. Odd.

 

[sohcrates]

thanks for the quick reply...checkin out link now

i'd rather be out tonight than fixing this!!! 😛

 

[sharkeeper]

Get a UPS! 🙂

Cheers!

 

[sohcrates]

<< Get a UPS! 🙂! >>



hey man, i said above i have an UPS on my main box...the one that matters!

anywho, i have now reached a new low...this is despicable

there was a !?FRIGGIN?!#* floppy in the A drive!!!

i mean, that's the first thing i should have looked at for god's sake!!!

i think one of my parents stopped by the other day and used it and must have brought a disk! i don't use floppies!


aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

man, this is really bad

thanks for all the help though !!!!!!

happy friday 🙂

 

[sharkeeper]

If you had a UPS then why did it take something out? Not related to the power failure or the UPS is only protecting one pc? You can use a smart signaling UPS on one pc and much smaller units on others to save money. A 300VA UPS is often enough to protect a workstation allowing enough time for the broadcast from the master to shut down when there is a power failure.

Cheers!

 

[boyRacer]

LOL... hahaha... sometimes i do that too. 🙂