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Ages ago I got my Windows XP computer from PCworld but after about a year or so it stopped working, on the boot screen with the windows XP logo on it and it froze and restarted.
So I got my Windows boot disc, put it in clicked repair Windows or something and it said anaslising and I left it there for over 2 days and it still said that.
So I decided to try boot it in safe mode and all the others but it didn't work. Then I put the disc in and tried re-installing Windows and it came up as the same as it did in Repair.
Name: Chuck 2 Date: June 26, 2009 at 07:23:57 Pacific
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Possible that the harddrive is not running at its normal speed, freezing up or slowing down. Or has quit. My computer took 20 min. to boot the other day. I was watching the HDD activity indicator light, and it would remain on, and not rapidly blinking. Mechanical devices do have problems.
Harddrive manufacturers have software for download for testing HDD.
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Name: DuckyForDucks Date: June 26, 2009 at 08:03:49 Pacific
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But when it freezes it restarts and I turned off restart after system failure and it didn't come up with the load screen then :(
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