Cables and NTLDR Loss

billw1701 · 04-09-2008, 07:14 PM

I have been fighting with my WinXP box for a few days now. It will suddly crash and restart without warning. When it restarts, I get the message NTLDR is missing
hit crtl-alt-del to restart. I do that and get the same message. (No surprise there)

The bios does not see either both hardrives or one hard drive. It is different each time.

I can get the machine to boot into Windows by disconnecting and reconnecting the ribbon cable from the drives.

I checked the event log and found an error with disk as the source and said the problem was a failing cable. My question is, could it be this simple?

**Deleted090308** · 04-10-2008, 05:00 AM

Welcome to TSF.

Yes, it can be (and probably is) that simple.
Replace the cable.

04-09-2008, 07:14 PM	#1 (permalink)
billw1701 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 1 OS: XP Pro Sp2	Cables and NTLDR Loss I have been fighting with my WinXP box for a few days now. It will suddly crash and restart without warning. When it restarts, I get the message NTLDR is missing hit crtl-alt-del to restart. I do that and get the same message. (No surprise there) The bios does not see either both hardrives or one hard drive. It is different each time. I can get the machine to boot into Windows by disconnecting and reconnecting the ribbon cable from the drives. I checked the event log and found an error with disk as the source and said the problem was a failing cable. My question is, could it be this simple?

04-10-2008, 05:00 AM	#2 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: Cables and NTLDR Loss Welcome to TSF. Yes, it can be (and probably is) that simple. Replace the cable.