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Old 09-11-2011, 20:53   #1
blotchyprune
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Physical hard drive failure.

Hi all,

This is typical bad luck but hopeing for an easy solution.

Last night my i spent 2 1/2 hours building and loading xp onto my parents new (yet second hand) pc and abit of software tonight (line 6 monkey, iTunes, Jamvox all stuff like that) and just as i finish with everything i give it one last reboot and just to do something easy to test it I go to ebay.co.uk and boom Black screen then POST

It then says hard disk failure, press f1 to continue...

BTW it has 3 ide HD's, so it looks for windows on the slave but it aint there so i have to restart (Ctrl,Alt & Del) then windows loads again fine but only for about 5 mins before it does it again...only done it twice (i thought i'd ask for help before trying anything).

If the disk is knackerd..can i some how duplicate the HD to one of the others so i dont have to go through all that again ?

If it helps i am confident it will load up windows again but maybe only for 5 - 10 minutes..

Any help will be great, Thanks.
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