right, just turned my main pc on and it starts to load up, gets to the screen with the windows xp logo and the blue scrolling bar then nothing after that, just a black screen and the hd light on the tower stays lit ???

tried turning it on and off / restarting it many times but its always the same lol

is my hars drive foobarred ? its a sata drive by the way

help lol..............Matt

 

If you have the Xp disk, id boot up with that and try doing a repair

 

mine did this a month ago and the graphics card had fooked up and took the motherboard with it, hope you have more luck than me

 

if it gives you the option try selecting "last known good configuration".

 

ok .. try pressing f8 when it boots.. it should give you an option of starting with last good configuration or safe mode...

always worth a try ..

 

ok im on the pc now, taking ages to do anything and one of the hard drives is making a clunking noise evey now and then ???

i presume this is the main hard drive making that noise ?

just took 20 mins to startup pmsl

Matt

 

also, the system tray icons are missing and my open apps ie internet explorer and outlook express are not showing in the task bar ???

my computer, i have 4 hard drives, I s the main one and when i click on that it opens straight away, when i click on the others it proper takes ages and windows is just all over the place ?

 

Then you need to back up everything i would say. Right now

 

could one of the other hard drives failed which is slowing everything down ?

keep hearing this clunking noise lol

are samsung drives any good ?

matt

 

how about i disconnect each hard drive except the main one and see what happens if i restart ?

 

if your running 4 hard drives then your running sata raid yes

if so then all the info on your pc is spread across all 4 hard drives

so basically if one fails you lose so much of your stuff is how i see it

unless you run an ide hard drve aswell for storage purposes

looks like a new hard drove and a reformat mate

 

ok ive done some digging around

2 hard drives are sata but not raid
2 hard drives are ide

i unplugged the two ide ones and the pc started fine

plugged one back in (the one i was hoping was still working) and agai it started fine

so it seems drive E the oldest drive in there was starting to fail and bring the whole pc down with it

does this seem feasable ? as the pc is running perfect again now lol

only prob is drive E is what i had all my porn on

matt

 

i'd do this before you start unplugging/messing about with stuff too much.
definitely sounds like the clunking hard drive is on the way out!

 

system is fine again with E unplugged

no more clunking !

matt

 

could you access E: at all when the system eventually came up?

if not, best start collecting more porn..

 

i dont think i could get the drive up no

spose i could plug it back in and see if it will transfer all the stuff lol

just glad its not the main drive lol