I have just about had all I can take...I have spent a verrrryyyy longggg timeeeeee trying to get to the bottom of why my XP has been freezing up on me randomly for the past 6 months!
Well I think it just might be a bad hard drive thats to blame??
I am no comput expert but I have just had to reload XP twice now in the last 2 weeks. The first time because it would'nt boot and Xp set up could not detect the installed XP so it wanted to reformat and install a fresh XP....wiping out 30 gigs of un backed up valuable data!!!!
I persevered and eventual restored XP using chkdsk /p command in the Recovery Console...Yippeee I thought
But today bad news XP would load no way ....it was missing its whole System32 folder!! Don't ask me why cause I have'nt a clue??
Anyway if that is not serious enough the whole C Drive was not being detected on startup .....IBM Deskstar 60GB 6months old.
I could not repair the installed XP even after finally getting the computer to see the drive again ....it just kept coming and going on startup but finally stayed long enough for me to install a second copy of XP back on it.
I have just had a couple of freezes already after only a couple of hours and I ran a diagnostic on the drive and it reported that it has one or more bad sectors on it??
So what I would like (besides going to bed and waking up in the morning to discover it was just a very bad dream) is some advice please fairly quickly if possible....are bad sectors on a drive fixable or is it time to give up on it and send it back to the black hole it came from ??
This post was longer than I was intending ....but what the hell just glad to share
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