Hard Drive crapped out

[Codrus]

i got my threads confused , and realised you were still refering to laptops afterwards.

and since thats the case then why would you suggest striping for accountable?

 

[Codrus]

ive been building my own machines and repairing others peoples for years and.....never mind..i need sleep

hope it goes well accountable

 

[Ertragen]

i got my threads confused , and realised you were still refering to laptops afterwards.

and since thats the case then why would you suggest striping for accountable?

I was NOT advising HIM for striping. I was saying I would do that if my comp was capable. It was more of a general recommendation for anyone who have a system that can.

 

[Tuffdisc]

The boot sector is out. It won't boot up. Being an old guy, I would make a bootable floppy but my notebook (the computer I'm using now) doesn't have a floppy drive. It's like the front door is locked and the key's broke off in the keyhole.

If I use the recovery disc, it'll wipe out everything that wasn't originally installed, won't it?

The new netbook finally arrived. Cute little white Samsung with a 10 inch screen. Looks like we grabbed it before it grew up all the way.

Like I said, no need to wipe it off, you can recover it, by installing again, what it will do is make a new directory to where XP is installed, like Windows2, but make the other one unbootable, but you do need to recover the data that is on the hard drive, which it should do, then you can format the hard drive if you want to reinstall it, just remember not to activate XP until you absolutely need to