System not recognizing hard drive

[jubalo420]

I've been having intermittent problems lately when booting up my computer. There are times when I get the "NTLDR is missing" message while other times it will boot successfully. I have found that by going into SETUP mode and checking the BIOS that the system is not recognizing my C: drive. Could this be nothing more than a bad hard drive? I am using a 320g WD which has only been in use now for maybe a year and a half.

 

[an51r]

If you can get into windows you can schedule a disk check to look for bad sectors upon reboot, if the drive is SATA you may want to try a different SATA port. All in all I would suggest you back up anything you can before it is to late.

 

[MustISO]

I would try and put it into another machine so you can try and access the drive that way, if you can backup all the important files right away. It sounds like a drive going bad or with corrupted/bad sectors. The more you use it the more damage you may cause.