A couple of years ago I shut down my computer when my wife and I went on vacation. When we got back I booted up and…nothing. My bios posted, then all I got was
NTLDR is missing
My partition was lost, and I was not happy. Neither was she. Not all of our photos were there, because we hadn’t made the full switch to digital, but everything she had taken through college on her digital camera, and a lot of pictures from our honey moon and first year-plus of marriage were there. Since I built the computer myself (out of tin foil and ornaments), the blame fell on me, as well as the burden for getting it fixed.