Check disk hanging at start up

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There is no doubt. The hard drive is in trouble.

Put in a new drive. Reinstall all, put in the old drive in secoind position, try to recove data by 'taking ownership'

HOW TO Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP: http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] US;Q308421

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Mark L. Ferguson
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"urbanfox" <urbanfox@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C0F25EB3-0D13-4E8B-A068-62AA787042F1@microsoft.com...
>I have had a message at start up saying that
> one of my discs needs checking, but the check just stops at 7% complete.
> I've been ignoring it for a week or so, but now the whole thing has gone
> belly up.
>
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