Disk Error

So I was surfing GFF on my tablet PC when it suddenly crashed on me, and a BSOD pops up with an error message about the Kernel or whatnot, not sure, went by rather fast. Now when I boot up my Tablet, I get an obtrusive message:

Disk Error
Press Any Key To Restart

So I tinker around with it some more, trying the Acer recovery CD and stuff and then, now I have the message:

NTLDR is missing
Press any Key to Restart

I don't know how or why it changed to the second message, but would I most likely be correct if I guessed that my Hard Drive is crashing and burning?

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You've experienced some data corruption as a result of the BSOD, but I don't think that it's necessarily a dead drive yet. If you reinstall, it might be just fine.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I got the same problem when I added a second hdd on my last comp, it was a problem when my computer was trying to load window from the new hdd which didn't have windows on it...

maybe it something like that, or the os got corrupted or deleted...

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Oh yeah the actual problem, I forgot about that...

NTLDR is simply the bootloader. If that's missing, nothing else will work. If you have a complete OS installation, but delete NTLDR, it will freeze exactly as yours has done. I'm pretty sure that if you put a real Windows XP disk in the drive instead of that rip-off recovery CD they gave you, you'd be able to repair your installation easily. I've done it before.

Do you have access to a real Windows XP CD? Can you borrow one?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Yeah, I got it (The XP CD).....Trying it out now...

EDIT: Seems that copying NTLDR from the CD didn't cut it, unless it has to be in a specific place on the drive, it still says it's missing....

I'm going to try fixboot and fixmbr from the recovery console.

EDIT 2: fixboot didn't work either.....fixmbr seems to have the unfortunate possibility of rendering my hard drive partitions inaccessable.....I don't know, I'm at a loss here.... I can't really reinstall windows XP because I don't have a CD for Windows XP Tablet Edition.

EDIT 3: Nevermind, I really have no choice now, Those Acer CDs are pieces of shit, they seem to format the hard drive partition and then fail to reinstal the OS....I'll have to use Regular XP then, hopefully it won't interfere with my schoolwork (which I don't see how unless the Engineering department is going to be an asshole about it).

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OK, I'm in deep shit now.

I assume if the BIOS can't pick up the Hard Drive, it's officially dead.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Pipe dream perhaps, but can you get it recognized in an external USB enclosure?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I don't have that kind of enclosure. It's a notebook hard drive.

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Originally Posted by Omnislash124

I assume if the BIOS can't pick up the Hard Drive, it's officially dead.

There is always a slim chance that some bizarre fault occurred which isn't related to the drive... but your odds are not good. The balance of probability is that the drive was dying, and is now dead.

How old is this tablet? If it's still under warranty, then you only have to worry about your data. If it's out of warranty, you also have to worry about your hardware. If it's a standard laptop drive, you might be able to do a home repair.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Nah, it's still under warranty, I'll just send it in. The only thing I have to worry about is going notebook-less through my Engineering classes as well as my Computer Engineering Classes. Which, I'll be without a notebook for about a week, which may be a problem.

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