NTLDR File is missing messages upon Windows Startup

[Guest CF]

Greetings,

 

A few months back I had the same issue & followed the advice given:

Delete NTLDR & copy back from Windows Installation CD

Delete NTDETECT.Com & copy back from Windows Installation CD

If these things didn't work, then I did the following:

delete & create a new master boot record(FIXMBR & FIXBOOT)

None of these things worked. So I went to Windows Install CD, chose option to

re-install windows over itself, & now I get message with some kind of

unreadable

notation like the infinity sign.

 

Please keep in mind I have gone through 3 HD drives, with the thought that

the hard drive was the culprit. Now I am convinced the hard drives never had

anything wrong. Each time I reformatted & re-installed Windows from scratch,

everything would be fine for about 2 months, until the infamous message "

NTLDR File is missing press CRTL+ALT+DELETE to restart" would re-appear. I

have another machine using the exact same Windows version so I know it's not

the OS.

 

Lately, I noticed some other strange things taking place. Last month, the

zone alarm software would go into a loop each time windows started, I had to

go to Windows in Safe Mode to uninstall then re-install zone alarm. Just last

week, the computer froze for no apparent reason, so I rebooted & problem went

away until

I got the NTLDR file missing message. I am firmly convinced I have bad

memory which caused the computer freeze & zone alarm problems, just not sure

if the NTLDR file issue can be blamed on the same thing. What I do know is

that strange things have happened as a result of bad memory. So I will

replace the memory, but the question I have is the following: From a computer

engineering perspective, The NTLDR file is located from the master boot

record in address 0 in hard drive. Once file is located, it is placed into

memory, from which it loads the appropriate instruction set into real memory

for CPU processing. Here is the question: each time the PC starts or

restarts, does it always go to the hard drive to load the NTLDR, or if the HD

has cache(which it does) will it look into the HD's cache, & if it finds it

there, then load it into memory? or: If the memory has cache, will it find it

there? As I'm toying with these theories, & if I may be on to something, does

it not cause a myriad of issues provided the memory has been corrupted?

 

Please send me your thoughts

Regards,

CF