NTLDR errors, etc. etc....Time for a new drive?

[PinchyCM]

nope, not the drive, just stupid BIOS was pointing at the wrong drive...

oh man...

what a pain...and i got a 36gb raptor to replace it. who wants an 80gig maxtor drive?

 

[PinchyCM]

bump

 

[everman]

What is the current drive, how old is it?
If you want a replacement I would probably go with that seagate 120g. I also recall the 36gb raptor not being so great?

 

[magomago]

that isn't a harddrive issue~ it is something a lot of people have gotten (includine me) and I have no idea what causes it, though microsoft details the issue in their help database so you may want to check there

 

[saltedeggman]

I have encounter with the exact same error a few times...

It has to do with the boot up sequence in BIOS... try to play with that if you will can shed some light

YMMV

 

[PinchyCM]

holy crap, you guys were right.

though the boot sequence was correct, the hard drive priority setting was set to my 160gb drive that i used for media/download storage. i switched it to my old 80gb, and it worked fine. oh man, and this whole time i was worried about a dead drive. SOOOO not the case.

now only if i hadn't formatted and forgot to backup my doom save files.

oh well, gettin that 36gb raptor. who wants this one? 60 bucks shipped!