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04-05-2007, 02:00pm
Ok nerds, question...
My pc was rebooting itself, sometimes failing to restart. After a few times I got a message on reboot saying hard disk failure and cannot find ntldr
I do know that commonly virus's attach themselves to fore mentioned file. Virus scanners in their wisdom then remove the file. Window no worky. I run avg as a virus scanner. Ive never seen it complain about a virus on my machine yet. The only complaints i have seen from it are in regards to executable files changing but that is in relation to the fact that I have changed them as part of developing.
When i could finally bothered I stuck in my windows cd and copied the file to my windows directory and windows happily started again. (im using it now) It has been ok for about a week. I didnt check first to see if the file was in the windows directory or not.
I was doing a post in here just before and got the blue screen of death and had to restart. Got the same error, rebooted of windows cd, went into the repair prompt and did a drive listing. I have two drives. One is new, the other i have been using for about 2 years. Only the older of the 2 drives was available. This drive only has part of windows on it.. Which is interesting because I formated the drive and moved all my media items onto it when I put the new drive in. It would appear that one time or another I have gained a partial windows install.. perhaps when booting from the windows cd. I wondered what happend to my second drive.. I reboot again and windows starts up fine.
Anyways, to add to it all, I buy a new motherboard, memory etc.. all around the same time.. Windows blue screen reports hardware failure and says, check any new hardware install, yep, well thats all of it thanks... Given that on restart I get a hard disk failure (sometimes, given im using it right now) I figured thats where to start.. Its interesting though that I do have a partial second install of windows. When I do manage to start windows with the new hard drive.. I can do a check on it and no errors are reported. I can read and copy to it, no issue at all.. I can also add that the restart after failure, reporting ntldr as the issue worked without the need for me to do anything at all.. I havent copied the file back.
Im wondering if it is windows going nuts and running of one install, then at some stage trying to refer to the other partial install.. Perhaps its the bios on the new mother board losing its brain and thinking the drive is no longer there ?? how do you pin point the possible cause when you have pretty much updated all core parts.. could even be a driver or something.. I hate pc's. im quiting my job.. haha.
Anyone got some ideas ?
Maybe I could just go buy another drive and install microdollar windows on it and see how it goes for a while. I could also get rid of windows on the current drive and reinstall, but im to lazy to bother.. It takes forever to setup a pc with development tools etc..
Maybe I could get a new drive, put Vista on it and see how long it survives...
Perhaps someone has other options I should attempt.. Make them simple, not because i cant cope with more difficult pc things, but because when you work on them all day, you really cant be bothered fixing your own after hours and tend to only bother when someone like you gf has a whinge because she wanted to print a photo or plug in her ipod.. lol.. her ipod no longer starts up either, dead.. Thats 3 ipods down... (hence the reason i have a sandisk mp3 player)
ok i will press post before it crashes again. haha
My pc was rebooting itself, sometimes failing to restart. After a few times I got a message on reboot saying hard disk failure and cannot find ntldr
I do know that commonly virus's attach themselves to fore mentioned file. Virus scanners in their wisdom then remove the file. Window no worky. I run avg as a virus scanner. Ive never seen it complain about a virus on my machine yet. The only complaints i have seen from it are in regards to executable files changing but that is in relation to the fact that I have changed them as part of developing.
When i could finally bothered I stuck in my windows cd and copied the file to my windows directory and windows happily started again. (im using it now) It has been ok for about a week. I didnt check first to see if the file was in the windows directory or not.
I was doing a post in here just before and got the blue screen of death and had to restart. Got the same error, rebooted of windows cd, went into the repair prompt and did a drive listing. I have two drives. One is new, the other i have been using for about 2 years. Only the older of the 2 drives was available. This drive only has part of windows on it.. Which is interesting because I formated the drive and moved all my media items onto it when I put the new drive in. It would appear that one time or another I have gained a partial windows install.. perhaps when booting from the windows cd. I wondered what happend to my second drive.. I reboot again and windows starts up fine.
Anyways, to add to it all, I buy a new motherboard, memory etc.. all around the same time.. Windows blue screen reports hardware failure and says, check any new hardware install, yep, well thats all of it thanks... Given that on restart I get a hard disk failure (sometimes, given im using it right now) I figured thats where to start.. Its interesting though that I do have a partial second install of windows. When I do manage to start windows with the new hard drive.. I can do a check on it and no errors are reported. I can read and copy to it, no issue at all.. I can also add that the restart after failure, reporting ntldr as the issue worked without the need for me to do anything at all.. I havent copied the file back.
Im wondering if it is windows going nuts and running of one install, then at some stage trying to refer to the other partial install.. Perhaps its the bios on the new mother board losing its brain and thinking the drive is no longer there ?? how do you pin point the possible cause when you have pretty much updated all core parts.. could even be a driver or something.. I hate pc's. im quiting my job.. haha.
Anyone got some ideas ?
Maybe I could just go buy another drive and install microdollar windows on it and see how it goes for a while. I could also get rid of windows on the current drive and reinstall, but im to lazy to bother.. It takes forever to setup a pc with development tools etc..
Maybe I could get a new drive, put Vista on it and see how long it survives...
Perhaps someone has other options I should attempt.. Make them simple, not because i cant cope with more difficult pc things, but because when you work on them all day, you really cant be bothered fixing your own after hours and tend to only bother when someone like you gf has a whinge because she wanted to print a photo or plug in her ipod.. lol.. her ipod no longer starts up either, dead.. Thats 3 ipods down... (hence the reason i have a sandisk mp3 player)
ok i will press post before it crashes again. haha
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