up, but it only flashes for one second, so it's unreadable. (Why would this be? Shouldn't error messages be readable?). I then decided to do a repair install of WinXP. To do this I wanted to make the DVD drive bootable. So, I attempted to bring up...

still worried (and my boss is paranoid.) Any advice? Do you want to recover the data and repair the hard drive or do you want to format it? Make sure that the cables are secure. You can also try hooking up your hard drive to another computer or purchase...

it one of the machines at a macnic use to test car computers. Frist one is they have a hard drive that 635megs 16 heads and cyl 1225. And not working. And the computer only sees 270 megs 16 head and cyl 1024. How did they get this hard drive to work. And...

I know the CD is working as I have tried it on another computer and it read it to load windows to do the repair. My hard drive manufacture has a DOS program that says my hard drive is fine. What can I do now to get my computer working? Dan Huston...

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 Let's start with "I have clicked...

into it chkdsk c: /r You will get a message that this will run on the next reboot. Now reboot the computer. The PC will attempt to repair any hard drive errors for you and finally Windows will load. Finally from within Windows run your system defragmenter...

because I know very little about CD burning and > that kind of stuff; isn't there an easier option? Instead of slipstreaming, and instead of installing the Recovery Console onto my HD, can't I just run the RC from my old XP CD to repair my hard drive?...

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suggestions, as I obviously would prefer not to have to reformat :) Thanks Check your hard drive it looks like it has a bad sector. I do have the same problem last time, I used checkdisk to repair my hard drive. Use a utility like Winternals. ...

are plugged into. anybody got any ideas what the problem could be? I would run memtest on the RAM, and in the repair console, run chkdsk /r to scan and repair the hard drive. ...