I have an aging WD 80GB IDE HD. If I shut my computer down over night, when I boot up the next morning I get the NTLDR is missing message. If I shut down and retry booting several times it eventually will boot into Windows and behave normally except, after the POST screen and before the Windows splash screen I will have a black screen with a blinking cursor for 30 sec or so.
Is my hard drive mechanically on the way out? Or could there be another cause?
I've used Paragon's Drive Copy to ghost the drive to my external USB drive, just in case. If I dont manage to get a new HD before this one dies totally, what is the easiest way to get my ghosted copy onto the new drive?
Is my hard drive mechanically on the way out? Or could there be another cause?
I've used Paragon's Drive Copy to ghost the drive to my external USB drive, just in case. If I dont manage to get a new HD before this one dies totally, what is the easiest way to get my ghosted copy onto the new drive?