Windows XP hangs on boot

[Guest]

I have a laptop that was working fine for a while. All of a sudden it hangs
on the Windows XP screen. I tried booting in safe mode and it still hangs at
the same place. So I format the drive and did a clean install and it's
working fine for about a month now the same thing happens again. Is there
something I can do to fix this instead of having to reformat the drive and
reinstall everything? I'm running Windows XP Professional SP2 with all the
latest updates.

Thanks

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Hard drive failure is probable.

Boot to the XP setup CD, and press 'r' for recovery console, run the command : CHKDSK /R

If no help, you are probably faced with some hardware replacement.


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[Guest]

I tried that too. But once it finish checking, when I reboot, I still get the
same problem. Is there a way to check if it really is the hard drive failing?

Thanks