Hard Drive Failing
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:37 pm
My question is if my hard drive is failing could it pervent me from installing another os properly?I am currently using Windows 98 SE trying to put in Windows XP Home.
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Re: Hard Drive Failing
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 8:35 am
Yes!
Re: Hard Drive Failing
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:24 am
why do you think its failing?
Re: Hard Drive Failing
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:28 am
I'm guessing because her winXP installation isn't working.dicecca112 wrote:why do you think its failing?
@HEARTLESS: It could be due to memory errors, or a scratched CD, but with a system as old as what it sounds like, it could well be the drive.
Dan
Re: Hard Drive Failing
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 2:33 pm
The reason I say this is when I shut off my computer and start it up the next morning,it acts like it was not shut off properly,and does a scan disc. Not to mention sometimes it shuts off on its own.There are other things its doing that leads me to think that the drive is getting ready to go too hard drive heaven 
Thank-You Been a great help.
By the way All FEMALE here
Thank-You Been a great help.By the way All FEMALE here
Re: Hard Drive Failing
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:29 pm
woopsHEARTLESS wrote: By the way All FEMALE here
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Dan
Re: Hard Drive Failing
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:58 pm
If the machine is old enough for the HDD to go bad, how about finding a slightly newer HDD to do the install on. I've come across many tossed out machines lately in the sub 1.2Ghz era that have provided disk space from 1.7Gb to 15Gb in size for FREE.
The only reason why I mention these other smaller HDD vs today's mega sized Gb drives is that the older machines have BIOS's that max out around 20Gb plus or minus a few Gb.
Really old machines running older HDD technologies like MFM or RLL encoding may not like WinXP at all and thus give you FALSE errors that the drive is bad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk
The only reason why I mention these other smaller HDD vs today's mega sized Gb drives is that the older machines have BIOS's that max out around 20Gb plus or minus a few Gb.
Really old machines running older HDD technologies like MFM or RLL encoding may not like WinXP at all and thus give you FALSE errors that the drive is bad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk