sounds like you need to give your hard drive a good clean

Take it out of the machine and VERY CAREFULLY open it up using a specially adapted screwdriver, a kitchen knife or a chisel.

Remove the disks and give them a good scrub with some of that mechanics soap (I find Fairy Liquid + sugar works well too).

Glue it all back together with araldite or chewing gum and then take the whole lot to PC world and ask them to do a reinstalls.

Posted By: Dave in France on August 14th 2009 at 14:58:00

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I'm trying to do a repair reinstallation of Windows XP (General Chat) - Charles21, Aug 14, 14:42:11
- sounds like you need to give your hard drive a good clean (General Chat) - Dave in France, Aug 14, 14:58:00
- How Do I Resolve a Stop 0?000000D1 Error Message in IASTOR.SYS...... (General Chat) - pants, Aug 14, 14:47:54
  - this may as well be in German (General Chat) - Charles21, Aug 14, 14:52:28
    - Can't you get into the bios on boot up like it suggests? (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Aug 14, 15:00:19
      - To correct a wholly different problem? That would be mad! (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Aug 14, 15:15:48
        
        I'd find a Live CD for Ubuntu or similar. (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Aug 14, 15:19:34
        
        I have no idea what that means (General Chat) - Charles21, Aug 14, 15:22:06
        
        Path (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Aug 14, 15:27:34
        
        + (n/m) (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Aug 14, 15:41:31
        
        The key point I made earlier was Install Linux. (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Aug 14, 15:42:59
        
        Here...... (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Aug 14, 15:30:57
        
        thanks much (General Chat) - Charles21, Aug 14, 15:37:19
        
        PS This is a serious suggestion and very simple to do. (n/m) (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Aug 14, 15:20:15
        
        I made a linux penguin for someone the other day (General Chat) - pants, Aug 14, 15:22:04
        
        Tux (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Aug 14, 16:03:06
        
        I have no idea really, I got that off a forum (General Chat) - pants, Aug 14, 15:19:01
      - this may as we be in Welsh (n/m) (General Chat) - Snakey, Aug 14, 15:02:46
        
        Think you press f2 on start up, or f8 just b4/whilst xp is loading (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Aug 14, 15:16:53
        
        yeah I can get into there but still that doesn't resolve anything (General Chat) - Charles21, Aug 14, 15:19:53
        
        All t cei i mewn i 'r bios acha lesewch i fyny cara awgryma? (n/m) (General Chat) - Dave in France, Aug 14, 15:03:57
        
        that's easy for you to say ! (n/m) (General Chat) - Snakey, Aug 14, 15:12:56
  - ^^^ Pantsbot error redo from start. Pantsbot error redo from start. ^^^ (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Aug 14, 14:50:36
- ask neo (n/m) (General Chat) - grants_cold_finger, Aug 14, 14:43:58

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