I left my PC on from Thursday - Friday. When I went to get on it last night it was frozen. Okay, so I restart it. Now it won't boot. It says "Strike F1 to retry boot, or F2 for setup" F1 just redisplays the error message over and over again.

So is it dead or what else can I try?

 

try booting from a cd and seeing if you can access teh HD

 

Odd...

I went downstairs to try this and the computer booted right up.

 

 

^ Whore

Nominate yourself yet?

 

Okay it's still acting up. It loads but it freezes again. I hear a clicking/tapping noise from inside the case. I opened it up and it is coming from the hard drive area. I guess it is fried

 

In all seriousness, back up your shit NOW.

 

I want to but I can't get it to stay on with out it freezing! I have another 120GB drive in there right now that I'm trying to copy shit to.

 

Do you have the 120GB as master and the other as slave?

 

No the original 40GB is the master

the 120GB was just installed last week and is the slave. I've been in the process of copying things over to the new drive. All my pictures, music, and documents are switched. However nearly all my applications and the OS are still on the original drive.

 

I just went through the same with my moms PC. You best bet is to make the 120GB the master, load a quick copy of Windows, make the 40GB the slave and copy the stuff over quickly. You can also so a scandisk on the 120GB.

 

Here's my problem... I don't have the XP disk that came with my desktop. Will the disc that came with my notebook work? They are both Dell computers.

 

Do you have any old OS disks? Windows 2000? Windows NT? You can try the Laptop disks.

 

No. The copy of XP on my PC was a copy of another disk back in 2001 when XP came out. I no longer have that disk.

 

Most hard drives comes with a utility to do a low level copy of the data from the old disk to the new disk, do you have that? If now, yo can uaually download one, but it is vendor specific.

 

How do I boot from CD F8 right?

 

You need to go into the BIOS - usually hit F1 or Del when first starting.

 

wheh! You're lucky then, OS, applications are replacable!!! NOT your files though!!!

 

In the BIOS the only option for boot sequence is my floppy disk, my CD drive is not displayed

 

disconnect the 40gb, install an os on your 120, connect the 40gb copy all shit over, disconnect the 40gb, goto an outdooir shooting range, see if you can nail it where it hurts for letting you down.


shit just realised you dont have a copy of XP. that might be interesting, find a friend to lend you a copy xp

 

I have a copy of XP from my bro's Dell Desktop and from my Dell desktop

 

First, let the drive cool down.

Then, install it as slave in your bro's Dell.

Start the OS, and try to copy the hell out of it.

 

Ah I didn't think of that.

 

 

as long as its the same model it should work otherwise you might have to look for your dell disk or download a copy off the net