winload.exe missing

[Arclite]

I did not get any response in the hard drive section so im posting here hoping to get a response.

I have DiamondMax 22 500-GB SATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive and yesterday when i got home from university the pc was off which was odd because i left it on. I tried to restart it and then after the bios screen, the black and white screen appeared stating that winload.exe file or folder is either corrupt or missing and that i have to use the windows 7 dvd and try to repair it. I changed the boot order to my dvd drive but 2/3 of my sata drives were detect the maxtor one did not. I tried using the repair option but obviously it would have not worked on the drives which did not have windows on them. I unplugged all the other HDs and just had the maxtor one and my dvd plugged in. The drive was not detected after a few restarts.

Is this a normal way for hard drive to fail? I ordered a new hd from ocUK and paid extra for saturday delivery but im still not sure about the hard drive failing like this.

 

[Arclite]

Today i got the new western digital sata 2 6gb/s hard drive and installed windows from scratch all was going well and then i shutdown the computer (from mains as well) to close up my pc and then restarted and same winload.exe missing or corrupt screen came up. I restarted my pc with win 7 dvd in drive and went on to repair it. This time it detected a problem and stated windows will restart and will fix the problem so i thought ok. Then the pc restarted and the win7 dvd went straight on to fixing the problem after a few minutes it said that if problem was fixed then windows will start normally. After restart, windows again went in to repair and now it keeps doing that. I took out thhe dvd and F5'd in bios for defaults and the repair screen still come up again??

Any ideas as to what is happening? is my ocUK overclock causing the problem? it was not before and now its a new hard drive as well.

Please help.

 

[Mattus]

is my ocUK overclock causing the problem?

It might be. You really need to reset your system to stock settings and reinstall Windows before you go any further. You might also want to run MemTest86 to rule out any memory-related issues. That it's happened on two separate HDs suggests hardware instability.