Im currently working on a system that has winxp, and the error is on boot up. The drive is seen in the bios but it cant boot, instead this error message comes up after loading the bios"a disk error occured" hit ctrl+alt+del. What tools could i use to possibly fix the mbr if i dont have the xp disc? i have seen some sites like bootdisk.com but would a xp boot disc have a recovery console built in?
View 2 RepliesEvery time I boot up I get a blue screen that says I have a a disk error, but I can cancel the test. If I let this run and let it start testing, It responds with "unspecified error" after a second or two. I have manually run the disc checking on all HDs. No errors found. Is this some kind of a joke, a virus, or distraction so some malware can load?
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This Problem occured about 3 weeks ago. All of a sudden when I boot up my Pc my toolbar works alright for about 10 or so minutes but after that the toolbar locks up. I can't access my "start" menu or anything I "minimize". What is far more worse is I can't load programs when this is happening. Sometimes though the computer "gives" and allows me to load things i want to for a few seconds but then it locks up again. So basically whatever is already loaded I can use but when this happends I can't load any programs,go to my start menu or basically ANYTHING. SoWhat should I do? Btw I cleaned out my PC thinking it was dust but I found out I was wrong.
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