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Denzil Hathway
I have a strange happening on my Gateway P4 Desktop running on XP. I had the
circumstance when all seemed to be working well when suddenly Outlook 2000
wouldn't open. I'd click on it and would see the program logo but the
program itself wouldn't open. I'd see it loaded in the Task Manager. I tried
various things like uninstalling and reinstalling but nothing worked. I came
down one day to a blue screen with a report that the primary HDD had failed.
I thought "that's it" and replaced it with a Samsung HDD of similar size and
reinstalled everything including Outlook 2000 from the Microsoft 2000 Pro
Suite. Everything ran fine for a month.
Now the same thing again. Outlook 2000 doesn't open. On bootup I get a
system message that there's a problem with the HDD - go to Troubleshooting
in the Owner's Manual (whatever that is). I hit Enter and Windows loads
normally but Outlook won't open. I'm busy right now downloading my data to a
portable storage drive. That's after checking the primary HDD for errors
(none) and defragging
Does this sound familiar to anybody? I haven't got a clue what's going on.
Is my new HDD failing already? Why only symptoms from Outlook? What am I
doing wrong? I'd appreciate some help, as I struggle on from my Gateway 9500
laptop. Thanks in anticipation, Denzil.
circumstance when all seemed to be working well when suddenly Outlook 2000
wouldn't open. I'd click on it and would see the program logo but the
program itself wouldn't open. I'd see it loaded in the Task Manager. I tried
various things like uninstalling and reinstalling but nothing worked. I came
down one day to a blue screen with a report that the primary HDD had failed.
I thought "that's it" and replaced it with a Samsung HDD of similar size and
reinstalled everything including Outlook 2000 from the Microsoft 2000 Pro
Suite. Everything ran fine for a month.
Now the same thing again. Outlook 2000 doesn't open. On bootup I get a
system message that there's a problem with the HDD - go to Troubleshooting
in the Owner's Manual (whatever that is). I hit Enter and Windows loads
normally but Outlook won't open. I'm busy right now downloading my data to a
portable storage drive. That's after checking the primary HDD for errors
(none) and defragging
Does this sound familiar to anybody? I haven't got a clue what's going on.
Is my new HDD failing already? Why only symptoms from Outlook? What am I
doing wrong? I'd appreciate some help, as I struggle on from my Gateway 9500
laptop. Thanks in anticipation, Denzil.