Okay, I have Dell Inspiron E1505, using Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, and for about 3 -5 months I have been experiencing some problems. Mainly it's my Itunes that did not work, meaning, I can not open it from the desktop, shortcut, and under Start. However, if I go to My Computer => Drive C: => Program Files => Itunes, I can run it from there, but then it prevents me from upgrading to a newest version of itunes. Anyways that's not the point of my problem.

 

The problem is, due to the fact that my itunes is not working, I have decided to format my computer. So I put in the OS CD and follow the instruction. However, there was a problem occured during the format. It took me 3 days to get from 0% to 100% and after the formating was finished, I kept on getting an error message for each files. So now my dell notebook is without an OS and it is useless as of now.

 

I want to know if it's the CD problem or the hard drive problem. I'm not sure which, the CD itself is clean. And I assume it would be the hard drive. But I do not know.