Im worried...

[Son1990]

I take apart my comp to work on modding the case a bit...put it back togeather and after im past the mobo screen and the PCI device listings and what not..this come sup:

Htldr not found
ctrl + alt + del to restart

Please dont tell me i have to reformat my HD and reinstall XP...

[snvpa]

are you sure its not ntldr? If so you can jsut do a repair instal. Insert your xp cd, press enter to setup xp, when it searches for previous installations press R to repair the xp instalation it will find. you could also copy the file and replace it using the recovery consol but I coudln't talk you through it without lookign at it myself.

[winterhavok]

Did you replace any hardware during this mod? Do you have a recovery image in which you could boot from, you might could also try repairing that Windows system.

[cack01]

I noticed you have two harddrives. Make sure the bios "boot device" settings are set to look at the drive that windows is installed on.

[Son1990]

Cack: your answer soudns the most sensiable.
SNV: It could be N...screen is kinda cut off...but i dont think so...i will chekc back in a sec after i try somin
winter: define replace

[snvpa]

cack's solution soundls like the most reasonable and logical, I neglected to notice you have 2 hard drives.

[Son1990]

Well that didt work (the master and slave were allready set correctly).

now what!?!?! do i have to repair? will i have to download everything again? Will lenuix be any diffrent? How can i get a recovery image?

[winterhavok]

Well I meant change out when I said "replace". You would have had to make a recovery image before the system went down, I just thought you might, because I always make images before I do anything to my computer (just call me paranoid after losing 2 hdd's at the same time). Out of curiosity, in your BIOS is both drives being shown?

[Son1990]

yes...it sees the maxtor and the WD...ill try to catch u on AIM

[winterhavok]

Alright, I am on AIM right now. There are a lot of things that could be causing the ntldr error to pop up, we probably would need to talk on aim to figure that out.

[Son1990]

im stuck....help!

[Son1990]

Could it have been an electric shock?

[winterhavok]

I doubt it, have you replaced your IDE ribbon cable?

[Son1990]

How would that help? isnt that for disc drives?

[Son1990]

it says your not on AIM..im dying here! i dont want to delete anything on my main drive.

[winterhavok]

How is your drives connected to the computer? Sometimes a faulty drive cable can cause those errors to occur.

[Son1990]

They were working before...drives shouldt be the problom...the main HD is hooked up.