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[Guest_Sunspot_*]

I had a PC with WIn XP on it for a while... it stopped working about 5 weeks ago, it would freeze during start up, taking maybe a dozen attempts to get it going, then one day it wouldn't start up, it froze in the same place.

I've since managed to get an XP disc, put it in...it gave the option of repairing the installation, which it did - but not for long.

I used it over night,, next time i switched it on... it froze again, restarted and it worked.

It downloaded lots of software updates for XP, and kept bugging me to restart so I did. This is when it came up with BOOT DISK FAILURE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

So now i'm back to using my 8 year old Win ME PC again.

I have tried the XP disk, but im wondering if the hard drive is dead. If i select repeair installation...it eventually goes back to C/: After looking around on the internet, I tried a few things I found. Typing chkdsk came up with the ominous message "one or more unrecoverable problems" I also tried a re-install, i'm not sure if it even finds the drive.

Think it's completely dead?

[djellison]

I'd suggest a great IT forum like hardocp.com or similar..... but fwiw, I think your best bet is to get it the heck out of the machine and access it via a SATA enclosure or similar, to get the stuff of it.