ntldr/boot.ini continually missing and corrupt

[Darkspark]

I am on Windows XP Pro SP2. I recently got a new hard drive a Maxtor 250GB diamondmax 10.

I installed my OS onto the new drive and everything was fine for a few weeks.

Now however, at least twice a week for no apparent reason, the NTLDR is either missing or corrupt and needs to be replaced (which I know how to do) or the BOOT.INI file is missing and needs to be replaced by using the fixboot command.

What is really annoying is however many times I fix it, I know in a few days I will have to do the same process all over again.

I contacted Maxtor support thinking it might be a hard drive problem, and they told me to download a utility called Powermax. I follow their instructions and put the program on floppy disk. From what they say, it should work upon bootup, however it does nothing. My floppy drive flashes a bit, then the system loads windows xp as normal. :/

Anyway, I told maxtor this, but they have not replied and I do not see they replying anytime soon. Would be grateful if anyone could tell me the cause of the ntldr and BOOT.INI files continually going missing, and if there is any way to cure it. Plus, how does the Powermax software work?