Weird Prob

[steve75382]

Hello,

I was installing my brothers stuff into a new case, did that, booted, and got an error msg: "NTLDR Missing. Blah Blah Restart." Did a quick run through Google, and turned up with this: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/N/NTLDR.html

I didnt have a startup disc on me at the time, and couldn't make one, so I reformatted his HD with a Windows XP Pro disc. The HDD is detected in BIOS and can format fine, but after I format I get another error msg: "HARD DISC BOOT FAILURE. BLAH BLAH RESTART". I've reformatted under NTFS and FAT32, the problem still remains. Your insights, please.

EDIT: Oh yeah, incase this might be of any help to you:
AMD Athlon XP 1600+
Crucial Micron 256MB PC2700
20GB WD Caviar (came out of an OEM, and I'm too lazy to look up the RPM specs, cache, blah blah on the website. Probably 5400 RPM...)
ASUS A7V8X-X
Radeon 9100 Pro

[Rav]

If its overclocked, bring it down to stock, relax your memory, try a different cable. If you already have, then I'm sorry but the drive is probably toast. You may also want to actively cool the HDD with a fan, sometimes they can crap out from heat if you are formatting them over and over. Good luck!

-Rav

[mdcomp]

Try what Rav said first, that usually solves the problem, but if for some reason that dosen't work try this. Try removing all your unecessary devices from the computer, like network card, sound card, stuff like that and then put it back in after windows is done installing.

[Caffinehog]

It could be a bad hard drive. It could be a bad cable. It could be a bad IDE controller.

Try a new cable, and attach it on the OTHER IDE connector.

[steve75382]

Thanks for all your help, guys. Turned out to be a bad IDE cable. Don't understand how it could of got damaged, though. Atleast it was easy to fix...

[steve75382]

-Double post- delete me please