PC problems...in case you were wondering where I've been...

[BenKenobi88]

In case you were wondering where I've been, I decided to switch back to XP from Vista.

Should have taken about 2 hours total to get back into gear, but oh no.  Plenty of problems along the way.

The biggest problem being a bad hard drive.  Windows XP setup formatted my hard drive and copied the setup files to start installing XP.  It required a restart, and when I got back I got the error message "error reading disk" or "disk error", I forget. 

The only thing it could be from what I read online is a bad sector in the hard drive.  But after running things like chkdsk /mbr, trying to repair the hard drive, formatting in different ways, switching the hard drive in the BIOS from LBA to Large (don't even know what that means...), nothing.

So I bought a new hard drive last night finally, and XP installed successfully.  Now I'm just having issues installing drivers, especially the ethernet driver...so I can't seem to get online as hard as I try.

I'm guessing after another night of this I'll be back up and running though.