Surfing Waves

Yesterday morning my wife was going through her email, and deleting the trash mail, when all of a sudden the PC just frooze up. When she tried to restart it she got an error message saying........

NTLDR is missing press Ctrl Alt Delete to restart.

Every time we tried this it came up with the same error message. I tried numerous times to restart in safe mode by pressing F8 when I restarted it, but that woodnt even work.

I ended up reformating my C drive, and reinstalling XP. Strange thing is, it loaded XP on my second hard drive. I'm running 3 seperate drives.

I'm at this very moment doing a deep scan on C drive to see if the hard drive is damaged. I'm not sure what wood have caused this. Anyone have a clue?

What sucks most about this is I lost close to 2000 mp3's, and I only had about half of them backed up. I never lost any of my 1000's of pictures I've took thou. That was my biggest fear. I'm gonna be backing them up later today.

you can fix it using the recovery console (boot from your xp disk), i had the same problem a while back but i cant remeber exactly how i fixed it.
If you installed onto a different drive then you should still have all your files intact, just copy them across?

Too Late C drive was wiped out.

dont you have an mp3 player to put the songs back on with. That suks

Sounds like my 6 hard drive system yeah im a bit religious when it comes to backing up my files. As far as the prob goes sounds deeply like an email virus muncher it propably deleted on of your registry files or something. Also be craefull when downloading mp3' from dodgy sites theres an mp3 virus plodding around that is deeply embedded awaiting for deploiment

Im not sure why xp did not load on your primary drive maybe something in the boot got mucked up. Its not a prob though i have six hardrives with windows xp and 98se installed

probably the file just got corrupted when the machine crashed, its a system fiel needed during the startup so it can simply be replaced with a valid copy and your away, but if you formatted then its too late.
there are file recovery utilities which might be able to recover some if not all of your lost files\ assuming you just did a quick format the files will still be there only the info telling the system where to find them on the HD is deleted. Cant recommend one as ive never used one on windows but look on download.com or something for a free one or one with a free trial period.