Hi all
Haven't been on here for awhile.
Just thought I would run a strange one by you guys.
It is annoying and a little scary and not real sure how to proceed.
This could be a long one so try not to get bored lol
I was diagnosing a Dell Latitude D810 and repairing/reinstalling a P4b at the same time.
The D810 had mysteriously started hanging and I was testing hardware removing components and replacing with components that had worked in the past, you know the drill.
I was reinstalling the os on the P4b because I needed a reliable computer to keep up on my taxes, emails etc and I thought this would be a good excuse to fix what had been the wife's computer. She killed it and I gave her an ipad so I wouldn't have to keep fixing things for her.
So I am accessing folders on my network from both computers. Installing programs etc. Upgraded Auslogics registry cleaner from within an old version. Ran it on one ran it on the other reboot one. NTLDR missing hmm.
Research, look at the drive from recovery console. What would of caused that?
Do you think the Auslogics upgrade did something different?
Reboot laptop and gawd it is gone too???
Restore laptop, reinstall P4b Xp os. They are both running xp sp3.
Contact Auslogics retest with their link as well as recreate how I updated the registry cleaner and all is fine.
No NTLDR error...this time.
Two computers went down at the very same time.
Virus?
Avg hasn't found one.
Life is short so I decide lets carry on.
Well I was getting to the bottom of the hanging problems, flash player not updating and probably the reason. No more hanging, knock on wood.
But I was reinstalling the bluetooth stack and I had problems. Reinstalled a few times finally got it and on reboot.
NTLDR is missing, again.
D810 NTLDR missing...p4b fine on reboot.
Backup non booting harddrive so I can look at it if need be.
D810 restored again with last good backup.
Bluetooth reinstalled no issues and hopefully no more NTLDR probs.

Something is up.
What? I don't know.
Any questions or directions?
I am doing backups twice a week now and would like to get to the bottom of this.
Is there a way to prevent this from reoccurring?
I have seen many posts on this subject and none are definitive.

PS
Bluetooth stack reinstalled after recovery and no probs on boot up.
I will be comparing the corrupt backup root to my current functioning one.