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WinXP problem ???
Name: DeweyBad Date: December 29, 2006 at 12:13:17 Pacific OS: XP Home CPU/Ram: 256 mb Product: dell/dim 4500
Comment:
I have an install of XP Home edition, it will not boot into windows and it will just sit on the "Blue Welcome to Windows Screen" I tried to run chkdsk from an Ultimate Boot CD using "these switches /r /f /x" on this hard drive the program runs at first but then the task will run up until 5% of the test and it will freeze the system, is this a hard drive problem with bad sectors and or windows corrupt issue or could it be a virus ?
I have no idea what is wrong, can somebody please help ?
It is my customers PC, general hardware installed Dell Dimension 4500 PC about a few years old.
Name: Zenith Date: December 29, 2006 at 15:00:06 Pacific
Reply:
Find out who made the drive - then go to thier website and download the diagnostic program for the hard drive. You may need to be able to boot from a floppy drive.
Then you can tell whether it is the drive or something else.
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Name: bduff_2049 Date: December 29, 2006 at 18:13:32 Pacific
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it possibly could be bad sectors. definitatley go to your hard drive manufacturers website and see if they have diag software.
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