Peanut2003
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Okay, I'm on a sony VAIO desktop (model PCV-RX650) running WinXP with a 1.6ghz processor with 512mb of RAM and two hard drives (C and D).
Recently, like in the last two weeks, it's been giving me a warning as I boot up saying, essentially,
"Failure may be imminent. Immediately back up data and replace hard drive." Then you have to press F1 to continue.
I know i'm dumb for not having done what it said immediately, but I can't help but feel like this is some sort of prank. (I've had the "blue screen of death" one pulled on me a few times by various friends.) Before all this I had downloaded a few small programs for personal use that turned out to be "empty". That is, I opened them and a small box popped up and then dissappeared. I ran a full virus scan. Nothing. If it is a fake, then this would be where it came from. But then it might NOT be a fake. Aaargh!
The fact is that it's been showing this error message for nearly two weeks and nothing's happened. Not even a flicker in the system. Everything's running fine. I don't know what on earth would have caused a problem so serious that I would need to get a new hard drive, and not even cause a wrinkle or in the visible OS. I'm running and error-check on both drives as we speak, so maybe that'll come up with something. Why would this happen?
Does anyone have any advice??
-Peanut
Recently, like in the last two weeks, it's been giving me a warning as I boot up saying, essentially,
"Failure may be imminent. Immediately back up data and replace hard drive." Then you have to press F1 to continue.
I know i'm dumb for not having done what it said immediately, but I can't help but feel like this is some sort of prank. (I've had the "blue screen of death" one pulled on me a few times by various friends.) Before all this I had downloaded a few small programs for personal use that turned out to be "empty". That is, I opened them and a small box popped up and then dissappeared. I ran a full virus scan. Nothing. If it is a fake, then this would be where it came from. But then it might NOT be a fake. Aaargh!
The fact is that it's been showing this error message for nearly two weeks and nothing's happened. Not even a flicker in the system. Everything's running fine. I don't know what on earth would have caused a problem so serious that I would need to get a new hard drive, and not even cause a wrinkle or in the visible OS. I'm running and error-check on both drives as we speak, so maybe that'll come up with something. Why would this happen?
Does anyone have any advice??
-Peanut