Today my beloved 5 year old desktop once again nearly drive me to the ER. At 7.45am this morning, the machine glared at me with its black screen and demanded that I replace its missing ntldr file.

Like how was I suppose to know what in the world is a ntldr file? After much thought, I think I realised the cause of the error. It was my virtual world I made last night to rectify my problematic game. What made it worse, I couldn’t log into the Safe Mode to deactivate the virtual mode. Smart.. I know.. I should have made a manual switchover button/ command that I can access through the MSDOS.

I had tried calling for my Technical Geek of a brother but as usual, 8am is way too early for the hibernating walrus to wake up. It was a panic attack as I scrambled to my laptop and Google the answer to the error. Most of the helps made it worse until I read one of the forum posts.

Below was how I solved my missing ntldr file:

(only for Windows XP)

1. Put in your Windows XP CD and restart your PC
2. Once they boot up from your CD by pressing F8 once it hits the boot up screen.
3. Next you should see a blue screen with Windows XP logo on the top bar. (the process may take a while) Press ‘R’ for Recovery Console
4. You will be moved into DOS. A screen will ask which windows installation you’d want to repair. In my Case its 1, press ENTER.
5. Type the Administrator password, and then press ENTER.
6. Type in cd \ and press ENTER.
7. Type Map and press ENTER.
8. Take down which drive is your CD-ROM. for example if e:\ is your CD-ROM, than that is your drive.
9. Type in the below codes:
   1. copy drive:\i386\ntldr c:\  (eg. copy e:\i386\ntldr c:\)
   2. copy drive:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\
10. If you are prompted to copy Press Y.

NOTE: In these commands, there is a space between the ntldr and c:\, and between ntdetect.com and c:\.

Then I reboot my PC and its back to normal!! Wee…

Oh yeah if you are using Deamon Lite Tools Virtual CD-ROM, disable it every time you have finished using it, else the same error may occur. But in my case, I have to disable my Virtual World that I had programmed so meticulously last time.. hehehe

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In all of my life I have never gotten anything so expensive in my life, especially for a handphone. Last Wednesday I finally gotten a new handphone to replace my old Motorola L6.

Actually I do have other phones prior to the Motorola but all of them have went to the ICU and the latest one was robbed off from me. Back to the phone my Sony Ericsson Elm.

The Pink one is what I had chosen. It looks much better than the normal black. It cost me Rm849 inclusive of 2Gb micro card. But it was worth it.

Specification:

• GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
• UMTS/HSPA 900/2100
• aGPS
• Use GPS-powered location-based services.
• Wisepilot™ turn-by-turn navigation*
• Get live instructions for how to find your way to your destination – and have fun en route.
• USB support
• PictBridge
• Modem
• GSM internet dial-up support
• Google Maps™
• Bluetooth™ technology
• WiFi™

You can view the rest of the specification here. But the best part of it all is my 5Mg pixel camera. It has a flash! It also has a Geo-Tagging, Face detection, Smile detection, Picture blogging and so on. I can also just upload my videos onto YouTube by just a click.

Furthermore I love the Wifi. It fits my love for the internet and certainly stops me from competing with my dad for the computer for my internet access.

I now do not need to bring my digital cameras wherever I go!

With the Iphone and phones that are built along with music player functions, has the glory of MP3 players been set to dull? I don’t really think so.

Although handphone makers are striving to make the ultimate handphone in the world, having almost everything in a handphone tends to jam the handphone.

I’m using a Sony Ericsson Walkman handphone. It has a 3MG pixel camera, music player and a built in Google Map GPS. It is great handphone when it was still brand new. However after a few years of using it and especially adding too many songs and pictures, my phone keep facing the stroke problem. It loves to play paralyze mode on me and it frustrates me.

Sure that it is nice having a speaker music phone especially when you cannot have a stereo around and would like to share the music with your friends. In fact, that was the reason why I had that phone in the first place, well apart from the camera functions.

But I realise that the replacement is still not as great as the real thing, mainly the MP3 players themselves. I could store as many songs as the memory allows me and set the player to any function I want without having to worry about it having a stroke.

No doubt, I would need to bring an extra peripheral and appliance but it really saves me the trouble to getting my handphone jammed up on me and destroying it in the moment of frustration. Furthermore, MP3 players are now much slimmer, lighter and suave!