Re: Failure to boot



Michael wrote:
When I try to turn my PC on it is giving a black screen with a blinking cursor. I use Windows XP and I tried to boot from the CD but no luck. Did I loose the hard drive



Impossible to say, based on the scanty information provided. Is the hard drive being properly recognized by the system's BIOS?


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