hi, need help please!!!!

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Hi guys, i have a problem with my dimension 8200, i was on it the other day and for some reason a blue screen came up and it shut down, i havent been able 2 get it to work since, the harddrive was making strange noises, clicking, i tried re-installing windows to get it to boot from the cd but it said could not create a file on the harddrive so i cant reinstall, when i boot it it dosent beep at all, and then goes to a black screen which says a disk read error has occured and press ctrl+alt+del to restart, but when i do it just goes back to this screen.   Anyone got any suggestions? perhaps i need a new harddrive? also would it be possible to get the data from the computer back?   Thanks in advance, any help will be appreciated

shesagordie · Answer

bren212.   Sounds like the hard drive has failed, try replacing it.  Any brand of EIDE should be fine, except a Maxtor.   If the hard drive does not run, then recovering the data is just about nil, unless you use a data recovery company.   Bev.

bren212 · Answer

hi, thanks for the reply, yea i figured as much :(:(, ill get a new harddrive and see does that solve the problem

shesagordie · Answer

bren212.   Shop around for the EIDE hard drive, if you are into rebates, there some excellent prices out there.   Bev.

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