When you see NTLDR, yes, that darn thing again.
OK, I HAVE checked the Q&A, etc. etc. Googled "NTLDR is missing", "NTLDR is missing RAID array", etc. etc.
But NOONE has had my situation yet, or so it seems. Here's the situation. I just installed Windows XP Professional SP2 on a computer with the following hardware:
MSI K8N-Neo4 Platinum Edition (BIOS was reflashed to include latest updates from MSI)
2 WD1600 SATA (old SATA) hard drives with RAID 0 enabled via NVIDIA nForce 4 controller total 320GB (theoretical)
ATi Radeon X800 512MB PCI-X (SAPPHIRE for Radeon)
Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
Sony CD-RW 52x, Sony DVD-ROM 16x, Sony floppy disk drive
450W power
1GB 2x 512MB Corsair ValueSelect low-latency
AMD Athlon64 3200+ clocked 2.01GHz
did I miss anything...? Hope not...
I'd been running the brand new installation of XP Pro 2 just fine for oh, a week or two, today I went online and got VLC Media Player for the codecs, I had just gotten it on my laptop w/ Vista and seen pretty good results with it in terms of compatibility and capability. After the installation, I restarted the computer (I usually do that to ensure proper installation and registration. To my utter surprise, (and uber frustration) the computer POSTed and wound up with the "NTLDR is missing Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart). I did, no change. So I came online and Googled "NTLDR is missing", and the first link was the one to the page on this site addressing the issue. OK, well, I knew my drives were OK because they were powered and were running, and they were detected by the motherboard as "RAID STRIPE HEALTHY WD1600 + WD1600", which is correct. So I tried the boot from CD, which would open up successfully to the point where I was supposed to hit "R" to repair. Well, Setup says there are no drives detected TO REPAIR, when I am 100% sure they are working properly. Now, I have a theory, when I used to only run a single WD1600 SATA, the SATA cable had to be changed periodically, I guess due to heat and bending in the case. Could that be a solution? I rejected that idea because I figured the array wouldn't really be healthy then, so I haven't tried it. Otherwise, I'm dead stumped. Does anybody have help on this?
