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Im running Xp Pro Sp2 on a dell gx270. Its a good machine, but recently it
has been taking 10 minutes to start up.
It occurs after the bios boot screen, that load imediatly. But once its
finished, instead of moving to the windows load screen, it just has a little
curser/propmt thing up in the left corner.
Ive removed al spyware with spybot and adaware, ran disk deframenter, virus
check(norton sw 05), cleaned out all the cookies temp files temp internet
files, the recycle bin and the norton protected files. Still nada.
A friend suggested restoring the boot files, but ive been reluctant to do
it cause of lack of expereince. Should i do this? If so should i back up
the entire hd? Or is the hd failng on me, cause once windows loads there are
no problems?
The only thing i was able to find were in the dell diagnostics test, many of
the ide tests failed.
has been taking 10 minutes to start up.
It occurs after the bios boot screen, that load imediatly. But once its
finished, instead of moving to the windows load screen, it just has a little
curser/propmt thing up in the left corner.
Ive removed al spyware with spybot and adaware, ran disk deframenter, virus
check(norton sw 05), cleaned out all the cookies temp files temp internet
files, the recycle bin and the norton protected files. Still nada.
A friend suggested restoring the boot files, but ive been reluctant to do
it cause of lack of expereince. Should i do this? If so should i back up
the entire hd? Or is the hd failng on me, cause once windows loads there are
no problems?
The only thing i was able to find were in the dell diagnostics test, many of
the ide tests failed.