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[aidon]

Hi, I could use some help, I am wondering if there is
something wrong with my pc or with my xp pro installation.

The two things I noticed were my harddrive was reading a
lot even from the desktop with no apps running, and I
would get write failure errors (once on boot, twice when
system restore created a restore point) and I would get
messages saying files failed to write to drive.

I went through my pc and scanned for adware etcetera of
which there was very little to be causing the performance
degradation I was seeing. I defragged, did scandisks
without error checking and scheduled a thorough scan to
detect bad sectors on my hdd at next bootup.

I rebooted my pc and now it won't boot up under normal,
last known good config or safe mode.

This tells me my hdd is still working (no funny noises
either), and it sees the windows install but something has
happened where it doesn't want to boot up.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

aidon

 

[David Candy]

Boot from CD and choose Repair and run chkdsk from there then reinstall windows over itself. Hard drives can get logical errors which aren't physical. Drives have a few very small critical errors that if faulty make the drive useless.