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Old 05-16-2006
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computer stoped working screen just turns blue and says unknown hard error
can someone please help my computer just stopped working i run in windows xp and now whenever i try to start it it just turns blue and says unkown hard error. i tried rebooting with windows 98 and half way through the installation another error screen comes up what should i do
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Old 05-17-2006
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have you tried booting from your XP disk and doing a reformat and reinstall? How old is the hard drive in the machine?
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Old 05-17-2006
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Your HDD seems to be broken... Try to plug in it to any other comp and run scandisk
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Old 05-17-2006
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Could you please post any code/number and/or filename that is presented in the error. That might help narrow it down a little.
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