Locking Up, Starting up, and other problems.

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Well after my C drive crashed the Geeksquad people put in the Velociraptor that I got as an RMA from WD. Everything runs fine but at the shop I noticed that they didn't plug in my second drive. They plugged it in then immediately upon boot up we got NTDLR missing. They started the system up in "Last known Good Configuration" to boot into XP with the second drive and from there on everything is fine.

The problem is now that some games such as Call of Duty 4 is locking the system up completely. That did not happen before. Before I could play for hours but now I don't know when it will start crashing. Everything I start up the system again after the crashes it starts up very slowly and I loose all my logins for my email accounts, etc. Have to reenter them all.

I was thinking of running a memtest because the last time anything was like that on my system it was regarding my RAM.

Another problem is that upon start up the system is very slow. I get to the Windows boot screen and it takes about 1+min to boot up compared to the last time before the drive failure which as 20 seconds max.

Does anybody have a clue to what is wrong?

[757200ba]

Ok, i have a few questions.
You say they instal a new HD.Was it the one with the OS?Did they install the OS again?if yes, you did instal the games again?I ask this because you say they run "last good configuration"So it makes me think that you had a new HD and your games were on the second HD?
Or you had a fresh instalation of everything and now you have that problem?

If it is a fresh instal, and now your games dont run, well it could be a driver problem.Did you instal the same video driver that you had before? Or they updated the driver?That might be one of the problem sources.Once again i tell you im suposing things from your post, you need to clear that situation.

One thing is a fresh instal and there are some tune ups missing ( like diferent drivers and configurations), other is installing a HD and let windows try to recover all your old settings ( and that is always a mess). So please make it clear.

Hope it helped keep us posted.

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Well it is basically a fresh install of everything. Nothing from the old hard drive was to be transferred to the new one because of the old one having failed the diagnostic. Whatever I wanted to install had to be done by getting disks out and popping them in.

The second hard drive had games on it but not COD4 (the one I have problems with). The role of my second hard drive is just a storage space for me to put stuff that are lying around. I don't want stuff like pictures on my C.

I meant by last good configuration was that when they started up my system they selected the last good configuration because when they plugged in the second hard drive it gave NTDLR error. After they selected run in last good config everything booted up fine with no errors and the second hard drive visible. I don't know why that happened and why last good configuration worked.

I have the newest drivers.

[757200ba]

Ok you have the new drivers.
Well sometimes depending on your hardware, old drivers might work better than new ones.Do you think you can remember what version you had before?If you do, try those and see what is the result.That kind of problem usually its because of new drivers, sometimes people even install beta drivers thinking that they will work better, and in most cases they dont.
So i think your problem is drivers configuration, usually when you replace a HD you dont get those problems.
Try to go back to your older drivers, and if you cant remember try some "old" ones.

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I have no idea what drivers I had but I will look into that. Thanks