Hi all, Just built my first comp all went fine, booted up okay and seemingly no probs. Next time I went to bootup it said "unable to update some startup files, windows may not run properly". Very strange things started to happen like re detecting hardware that was already there. So I thought I'd re format and start again. Initially everything goes okay, but when it gets to 100 per cent of the format it says " write protect error on hard disk, abort re-try or fail?". I'm stumped, tried the registry checker thing seemed okay, tried scandisk, also okay. Anyone help at all please?.

what hardware was redetected the first thing I do is to get a utility from the website of my hard drive and test it. Upgrading Links then you might want to try resetting the cmos jumper. then go thru the bios to make sure everything is the way you want. that's just what I'd start with not to say that it's the fix. TheGorx

I've managed to sort it through the BIOS, somehow it had changed itself to "read only" on the Hard drive setting, changed that and and succesfully re-formatted. Cheers