Problems starting XP

[gazza39]

Hi all
My PC has been periodically crashing and now wont start at all. I have the windows xp disk so thought I would re-install, however, I cant get past the licence agreement pages - pressing F8 as instructed dosnt do anything at all.
When I boot up now, I get as far as the windows XP screen and it states "please wait" and nothing. It seems to be frozen at this point. I am left looking at XP logo.
If anyone has ideas about this I would be very grateful.
Thanks

 

[muckshifter]

My PC has been periodically crashing and now wont start at all ...

Sounds like the piece of hardware that was failing may have finally gone to the PC graveyard.

What is it?

 

[gazza39]

Its a 3 year old Time Pc AMD processor running 1250mHz with a 160gb hard drive, Sorry but I dont know a great deal about these things.

I suspect a dead hard drive though.

 

[muckshifter]

Its a 3 year old Time Pc AMD processor running 1250mHz with a 160gb hard drive, Sorry but I dont know a great deal about these things.

I suspect a dead hard drive though.

Yep, my first thought also ...