Re: DISK BOOT FAILURE

"A strange whirring sound and then crashed" scenario appears to
be the result of a defective hard drive. You'll have to purchase a
new hard drive and also a new copy of Windows XP.

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"EvilTwin" wrote:

| Hi...I have Windows XP Home Edition with SP2 on a machine that is about 4
| years old but with no history of problems. My daughter was using MSN when it
| started to make a strange whirring sound and then crashed. Now whenever we
| try to load up the error message, "disk boot failure, insert system disk and
| press enter" shows up. I was not supplied with a system disk/reload cd when I
| bought the machine. I also get the error message, "a disk read error
| occurred, press ctrl/alt/del to re-start" but when I do I resort to the first
| message above. Suggestions will be received gratefully. Thanks.


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