NTLDR Missing

Rhyswh · 29 Oct 2013 at 18:56

Hi,

My other half's dad just rang me saying he has a problem. He said his fan has been making a funny noise recently (couldn't tell me which) and now he gets a "NTLDR is missing, Press any key to restart" message which just puts him in a loop of booting up.

I don't know much about fault finding but at guess I would say the only fan I thought would give you any problems if it failed would be the one in the PSU. But I've read it could be a HDD probelm. He also said something about a message along the lines of "no fan detected."

Any ideas?

linktoinsanity · 29 Oct 2013 at 19:00

Sounds like a failed hard drive to me. It's fine, your other half's dad can buy a new hard disk and restore the data from the backups he's been making...

Rhyswh · 29 Oct 2013 at 19:07

I was hoping that wasn't the case! Strange how the fan made a lot of noise and now he's getting a "no CPU fan detected" (he just said it was a CPU fan!).

Rhyswh · 29 Oct 2013 at 19:19

Says he's fixed it! Apparently there was a memory stick in there that it didn't like!! Fan still making a apparently!