Now, what you're describing makes more sense. I would guess you've got a failing hard drive.
Power on, press F12 immediately, and load the Dell diagnostics. Run the extended test on the hard drive. If it fails, report the error to Dell and they'll ship you a warranty replacement if you're under warranty.
If it passes, mount the drive in a working system as a secondary and copy your data, and then return the drive to the system and boot the XP CD. You can then either try a repair or you can reformat and reinstall.
How long is the warranty, I bought the computer in October 2004. If there is no warranty, is this a big problem to fix the hard drive? What causes this?
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Posted March 6th, 2006 22:00