| nordlead said: sounds like a corrupt HDD. Try unplugging the HDD and plugging it back in (could be a lose cable). If that doesn't work I would suggest taking the HDD to a friends house and running a diagnostics on it (or if you have a linux boot CD which you probably don't). Odds are you don't know how to do anything I said other than unplugging it. If that doesn't work, spend the $30 to buy a new small one, and install everything. It'll save you more time and frustration rather than trying to diagnose the problem. |
If anything, DO NOT go to Best Buy for their Geek Squad. If none of your efforts, Soriku, work, then take it to Staples for a diagnostic (much cheaper; like $59-69, but you could get your parents' help with it if you have to resort to that).
This same exact thing happened to the PCs in my one class for digital effects and animation; the guy behind me, his computer got a blue screen and won't go any further. Then the girl who sits to my right has a bricked computer. I don't know if it has anything to do with the OS (most likely the hardware), but they are XP computers. Figures, XP is crap.
There could be a driver problem, Soriku. My third laptop got blue screen errors because of the webcam driver. Then once the webcam stopped working, the blue screen errors stopped. So it could be the hard drive or a component inside the computer.
