Acer Aspire 3690

[ozmeister]

Hi there - wonder if you can help. My mate has a Aspire 3690 and is having terrible trouble. Seems that there are lots of corrupted files and a problem with the Fat 32 file.

Initial start-up takes an eternity and there are obviously issues to be cleaned up on the C drive but Defrag doesn't work etc.

Have commenced the Alt F10 recovery process but this failed half way through - he doesnt have a reboot / recovery disk and we are now stuck.

Message we are seeing is :-

'NTLDR is missing - press any key to restart' - any thoughts would be welcomed, where can he obtain a restart disk or is the problem now more severe ?

Regards.

[rojash]

Sounds like a failed hard disk to me...