needaremedy
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Ok so for the past 6 months or so my PC has been in and out of pc repair shops, and the problem has never been fixed. What happens is i'll be on my PC and i'll hear random clicking noises from inside it, my PC freezes up, and I get the blue screen of death. Then from here whenever I start up the computer it crashes at the Windows loading screen and goes back to the blue screen.
Normally what i'd do to fix this is load up my windows xp cd, go into repair, and type in chkdsk /r. This would normally fix the problem but only temporarily. After using this method for about 6 months I think my PC is ready to keel over. Now I can't start up my pc, when I go into repair mode and type in chkdsk /r I get an error along the lines of "This drive contains one or more unrecoverable problems" and If I try to reformat the entire drive and install a fresh copy of windows I can't because the drive simply does not appear(Says "There is no disk in this drive" or something, when it should say C:\.
I've came to the conclusion that my hard drive is completely destroyed. Probably because my PC is 4 years old and i've had countless viruses on it, along with it being reformatted every few months due to the viruses.
Would buying a new hard drive from ebay, and simply replacing the broken, and then installing windows on it fix my problem?
Windows XP Pro
1 Gig ram(2*512mb)
2.0 GHZ AMD Athlon 3200+
Nvidia 6600GT
and I think the drive is a Maxtor. Does this mean I should buy another Maxtor drive?
thanks for the help.
Normally what i'd do to fix this is load up my windows xp cd, go into repair, and type in chkdsk /r. This would normally fix the problem but only temporarily. After using this method for about 6 months I think my PC is ready to keel over. Now I can't start up my pc, when I go into repair mode and type in chkdsk /r I get an error along the lines of "This drive contains one or more unrecoverable problems" and If I try to reformat the entire drive and install a fresh copy of windows I can't because the drive simply does not appear(Says "There is no disk in this drive" or something, when it should say C:\.
I've came to the conclusion that my hard drive is completely destroyed. Probably because my PC is 4 years old and i've had countless viruses on it, along with it being reformatted every few months due to the viruses.
Would buying a new hard drive from ebay, and simply replacing the broken, and then installing windows on it fix my problem?
Windows XP Pro
1 Gig ram(2*512mb)
2.0 GHZ AMD Athlon 3200+
Nvidia 6600GT
and I think the drive is a Maxtor. Does this mean I should buy another Maxtor drive?
thanks for the help.