Calgarypuck Forums - The Unofficial Calgary Flames Fan Community - View Single Post

Hack&Lube · 01-19-2011, 05:39 PM

It's proably either nasty virus/malware (which caused your desktop to freeze), or bad/damaged sectors on your harddisk caused by the hard reset leading to booting problems. Personally I think it's the harddrive issue.

Common advice is to find your WinXP CD and get into recovery console and run chkdsk /r

Then if that doesn't work then use the WinXP CD to do a repair install.

Personally I prefer to put the harddrive into another computer (or just have another operating system installed on another harddrive or paritition of the current computer) and boot into that. From there I run antivirus/antimalware on the bad drive and just use the error checking application (goto the drive in My Computer, properties, tools) on the bad harddrive to detect and repair bad sectors.

01-19-2011, 05:39 PM	#2
Hack&Lube Atomic Nerd Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Calgary Exp:	It's proably either nasty virus/malware (which caused your desktop to freeze), or bad/damaged sectors on your harddisk caused by the hard reset leading to booting problems. Personally I think it's the harddrive issue. Common advice is to find your WinXP CD and get into recovery console and run chkdsk /r Then if that doesn't work then use the WinXP CD to do a repair install. Personally I prefer to put the harddrive into another computer (or just have another operating system installed on another harddrive or paritition of the current computer) and boot into that. From there I run antivirus/antimalware on the bad drive and just use the error checking application (goto the drive in My Computer, properties, tools) on the bad harddrive to detect and repair bad sectors. Last edited by Hack&Lube; 01-19-2011 at 05:44 PM.