My hard drive wont work

right. i was on my pc watching a film with vlc i opened another program tried to close vlc and the whole thing crashed, so i restarted my pc. got past the boot up screen thing and then the black page with all the white writing, and then it came to a page where it had a count down and options to start windows normally. start in safe mode ect ect i have clicked on all the things possible and then it just resets itself back to the boot screen and does the same thing over and over. it has done something like this before but when i put my old hard drive in it comes up with the windows repair hard drive thing but it did not work. can someone please help me! many thanks, max

hey. sorry that was a mistake i meant using keyboard not clicking. i got a new hard drive because i was sick of my old one not updating or installing some programs and it was IDE ( i think thats what they call em) my new one is a SATA 70G and it has been working fine for over a month now. AND the spec of my pc iss... gigabiyte motherboard gamer S with a AMD black edition dual core 2.6 processor 5000 also OCZ gaming 2G of RAM corsair 450W PSU and finaly a ATI graphics card made by power colour i think its a radion 9050 pro. and if this help my OP is windows XP thanks for helping me tom

NP . . . wife calls me a lot worse

So I gather you can use your keyboard to select an option (ie, your keyboard works on that screen) and you have at least once chosen "Start in Safe Mode". The PC tries, but it just reboots? In other words, you can't get into Safe Mode?

If you CAN get into safe mode, click "run", type in "chkdsk /f" without the quotes, and hit enter.

If you CANNOT get into safe mode, I'd like to test if your PC is in basic working order by using your OLD hard drive and do a Repair Install following these instructions:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp [...] oug92.mspx

If that runs and boots to Windows on your old HD, we know a lot. Then we might try the same thing on your new HD, or do something else.

bump