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Hard Drive Failing?

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Name: Drew
Date: May 4, 2003 at 23:38:18 Pacific
OS: ME
CPU/Ram: 700/196
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I have a Dell Laptop with a 10 gig hard drive...everytime I boot up the computer works for about twenty seconds and then locks up as though it is continously thinking. I have ran scan disk on it about a dozen times....each time it finds an error. Any suggestions, besides throwing it out.



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Name: the hat74
Date: May 4, 2003 at 23:59:25 Pacific
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can you get it to restart in msdos without it still shutting down,if u can type scanreg/fix or scanreg/restore if theres anything wrong with the registry it can effect a lot of things try it and see what happens by the way what windows sys. are you working off..


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Name: wawadave
Date: May 5, 2003 at 00:54:22 Pacific
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m.e wont start
http://computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/30687.html


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Response Number 3
Name: Trev
Date: May 5, 2003 at 01:19:28 Pacific
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May or may not be the hard drive. Follow what is suggested above then visit the homepage link on this response.


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Response Number 4
Name: Burbble
Date: May 5, 2003 at 10:29:30 Pacific
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Have you run a Surface Scan in Scandisk? If so, did it find any bad clusters? If it did, then it probably is failing...

-Burbble


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Response Number 5
Name: apple II
Date: May 5, 2003 at 20:39:12 Pacific
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Too many crosslinked files....
Conflict in the registry, especially involving the display card, lancard and sound card.

Try to go through save mode and troubleshoot the things I just mentioned.


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cannot find the scsi cont... Still having me problems ...



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