NTLDR is missing...

[Deepmist]

Alright, so the fan on my old power supply crapped out and I ordered a new power supply. I retained all the plugs and settings for everything accept power. Today I got the new ps and hooked everything up. Everything spooled up and it got to "Detecting IDE drives..." and stopped. After fiddling around it seems my HD may have died, great. Trying to boot up with the slave switched to master it brings up the error "NTLDR is missing". I tried using my older hd (only about 6 months out of the computer) which had a current windows with all the proper drivers for my computer and I still get the error "NTLDR is missing". I've looked around and tried most of the online suggestions such as replacing the ide cable. Nothing has worke yet, any ideas?

Specs:
a7n8x 2700+
9800pro aiw
60gig WD with xp sp2
Old one: 40gig maxtor with xp sp1
250gig maxtor slave, no os
1.8gigs of ram
cd and dvd rewritable drives

new ps is a 480w thermaltake, upgrade from an old generic 420w ps.

 

[Paperlantern]

possibly primary partition not set active, try booting to windows disk and using recovery console to repair windows, just a few prmary boot files are missing, you might even just be able to copy the NTLDR file and be OK

 

[dpick]

Check your boot order in your bios. You never know, changing out the PS may have messed up your bios. Also, recheck those master/slave settings. I've had systerms that wouldn't boot because I screwed those up.

 

[Deepmist]

Alright so here's where I am at now. Me and my friends figured out that the 60gig hd wasn't even spooling at all when the computer was turned on, go figure. It looks like my last ps took that hd with it. So I found out the 40gig hd actually didn't have windows installed on it, so I installed it. I get the service pack and all the drivers installed after a few restarts, all is well. Turn the computer off to plug in the 250gig hd and boot it up and it says there is a file missing and windows can't start. Huf. So I goto setup and I decide to just start from scratch and format the drive. The windows setup wipes out the drive reboots and starts setup again then tells me the drive is messed up (I forget the exact words) and it cannot install windows. Now I cannot even format it or install windows on it.

So somehow, i've managed to kill two hardrives over the span of a couple days. I'm afraid to do anything with my 250gig since it has at least 50+gigs of stuff I haven't backed up yet. This whole situations makes me want to cry.