WHAT THE HELL IS NTLDR IS MISSING? ***PLEASE TRY TO HELP***

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Ok, I did a fresh install of win2k, surf the net, turn off computer, repetition of that a few times. Finally system got laggy and I was like WTF, so I reboot only to come to a lovely NTLDR IS MISSING!

I format, install win2k again, this was just last night. I turned off my computer, went home. Come this afternoon, NTLDR IS MISSING!

What the hell is that, and what can I do to fix it?

I have a KT7133-Raid
Duron 800@800
256 Crucial pc133 ram
quantum 20.5 gig ata/100 hdd
geforce mx
creative cd rom drive

Thats my system

Please help me out!

I hate to have to always keep formatting.


***UPDATE***

Please help me, I'm in some desperate measures right now. It happend again. I fdisked/formatted tried clean installation, no go. The NTLDR is missing comes after a certain amount of time I guess. I can keep rebooting and it won't give me that error, but when I keep the computer on for long periods of time and i reboot it usually gives me the NTLDR error.

I'm now thinking hard drive is broken some how. Please help me in any more ways you can!
 
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Its the bootup file for Win2K, almost like the command.com for DOS, but of corse different.
 
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It doesnt sound like hes repeatedly upgrading from 95 or 98 there Taz.
 
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Yeah, I'm doing fresh installs. I checked those other posts about the NTLDR MISSING. It has nothing to do with me.

I fresh install, reboot a few times, them BAM, it hits me up with a NTLDR IS MISSING. I had no floppy in FDD, or anything like that.

PLEASE HELP!
 
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<< Yeah, I'm doing fresh installs. I checked those other posts about the NTLDR MISSING. It has nothing to do with me. >>


Point taken, I've only seen it in conjunction with an upgrade.
 
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Do you have the HD on the HighPoint controller? Maybe try it on the VIA IDE ports and just see if that works.
 
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Tranceformers

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HighPoint? What the hell is that?

I have them on the non-raid ide channels.

ERRR this is very confusing.

I take it that I may have a damaged HDD.
 
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Viperoni

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Is your harddrive firmly conencted at both the IDE and the power connectors?
Becasue I believe that error occurs when it cannot detect your main boot partition.
 
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Sorry, I'm kind of stupid. What am I supposed to do with those diagnostic tools? Or which one am I supposed to download?
 
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Did you previously have a dual boot setup on your harddrive... Does this have anything to do with the MBR...?

Dave
 
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yeah you see, i never had a dual boot, but i never got to fdisk this drive in the first place. my floppy or boot disk is broken, so when i tried to use the boot disk it just tells me that theres an i/o erro and to replace the disk with a working one and press enter. so i just used the cd to format the hard drive and install windows. is there anywhere i can get a new bootdisk somewhere on the net or something?

the hdd was brand new when i installed win2k and go the ntldr error.
 
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Boot from 2k cd, when prompted about what to do, use the repair option, and rewrite the MBR.
If this happens alot, I would guess either HD failure or MBR Virus....
this will make it so you don't have to totally reinstall, but it takes damn near the same amount of time
 
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