[Nita]

I have a Dell dimension C521 pc with XP home edition SP2. I am experiencing a lot of problems in starting up. The Dell screen comes on and then the white strip which should fill the box below "Dell" just seems to go halfway and hang. I then have to shut down manually and reboot pressing the F8 key and frequently have to do this(shutting down and restarting) several times before it actually gets going. Dell won't help me now as I am out of guarantee but it is really getting annoying and I keep thinking that one day it won't work at all!

[bhc7447]

Have you tried a repair install from your XP cd? Sounds like a hardware issue if it happens before windows even loads. I would even try chkdsk. Worst case scenario, I would back up your important files and just format and reinstall windows.

[Nita]

Dell doesn't give you the proper XP disk , only a reinstallation disk. There doesn't appear to be a repair install feature on it. What is Chkdsk? I am very loth to reinstall I don't have the confidence to undertake that.

[Nita]

I found chkdsk.I ran it and got the messge errors found unable to continue read only What do I do now?

[Nita]

Please can someone help me ?