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Compuer died- help please?

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disc13

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Well, I was online looking at my Fantasy Baseball team when I then proceeded to hit the Start button. The whole bottom taskbar thingie disapeared, and then I heard a click and the screen went blank. My computer rebooted, and I thought nothing of it. However, when it started to load Windows XP, it rebooted itself again. This kept cycling, so I shut off the computer. I turned it back on, and it told me that Windows crapped over and gave me the option of starting Windows XP in the "last usable state" or whatever, and I chose that. Same thing -- when it started loaded Windows XP, it would reboot by itself. Then suddenly when loading Windows it said that one of the files were corrupt or missing, and that I should put in the Windows boot cd and repair it. I tried that, to no avail. I tried rebooting last time- it went to the loading screen, and then something in my computer (I think it was the hard drive) kept making a clicking noise. I turned it off.

Now when I turn on the computer it tells me there is something wrong and to hit ctrl-alt-del to restart, and this keeps cycling - I can't get the computer into Windows XP, not even through Safe Mode.

Does anyone out there know what is going on, or knows how to help me? Thanks very much in advance... If i can salvage the data on my hard drive that would be fantastic. Thanks again!
 
Your boot sector is corrupted. Set your current drive as a slave and use another drive as master to read from it. Copy all the data from the corrupted drive to the good one and re-install xp. The same problem happened to me on my gateway.
 
Sounds like you may have been infested with a virus.

Did you buy and install the disk drive yourself? If so, you can run diags on it without writing to it and destroying any data.

You'll probably have to start with trying to eradicate the virus, which means copying anti-virus programs to floppy, etc.
 
Yes, don't forget to check for viruses, do so before copying any files (if you can't get the HD fixed).
 
well, I tried setting the messed up hard drive as a slave, and it is causing the new hard drive (the one I put in to act as a master) to not boot into Windows - it says that "cannot read disc: press ctrl-alt-del to restart". It recognizes both the primary hard drive and the slave hard drive, as it shows me their names when I boot up. Any suggestions?
 
disc13 said:
...Then suddenly when loading Windows it said that one of the files were corrupt or missing...
Click to expand...
Back up a minute...
Which file?

Maybe it can be fixed short of a reinstall, but we need to know what is corrupt.
 
Bios and time are working perfectly.

And about the missing file, I don't think it is a factor anymore as it isn't even starting to load Windows anymore. It just gives me the message of not being able to read the disc.

I tried the Western Digital Diagnostic disc thingie, and it said error 0458 -- I checked out their website and it said that the drive would need to be replaced. Hopefully when I get hold of their customer service tomorrow they can give me a way to recover my data...

Thanks again for your help, and any more that y'all can give me!
 
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