HDD Corruption

[Rick]

I recently had XP home until it completely locked up on
me. My computer tried to hibernate and locked up. I was
unable to get it to respond so I rebooted it. My computer
wouldn't boot up. Not even in safe mode. It would get
almost to the log in screen and would reboot
continuously. I reformatted the drive and tried to re-
install XP, but no such luck. 81% and has problems
copying files. I have a laptop with Windows 2000 and
tried it. Error messages. Finally it took ME but it locks
up about every 2 minutes. WTF?!?! I noticed an article
about large HDD's having problems, but mine is only 20g.
HELP!

 

[NTM]

You could spend enormous time and effort in trying to find the problem.
Since Hard Drives are dirt cheap now, why not replace the drive.
If you still want to try and fix the old one, install it as slave on the
secondary IDE channel. You can then run diagnostics and tests on the old
drive at your leisure.

 

[Rick]

I tried to use it as a slave, it just seems to corrupt
the system. I know that hardware is cheap, it just sucks
that the "software" is forcing me to buy new hardware
because of a stupid glitch

 

[NTM]

It may not be the software. It simply may be that the drive is bad. How old
is the drive?

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Rick;
If the drive is bad, the software is not forcing you to do anything.
Go to the website of the hardware manufacturer and download the hard
drive diagnostics.

 

[sqr]

It was not the software that caused you the headaches.......but the hard
drive which must have given you some kind of warning in the past that it was
on its way out.

 

[Bob]

I would agree that the hard drive may be the problem, it
just hasn't totally failed yet. I would copy all data
from it and replace it. If you wish, you can run the
diagnostics on it, so you can get an error code and then
perhaps do an RMA if it is still under warranty.

Bob