My wife has a demented PC, and i cannot seem to fix it.
It is a fairly decent machine and until recently ran without problems.
Problems apparently began following a crash during connection to MSN Messenger.
Scandisk ran after restart and found and truncated some files from the content.ie5 folder in temporary internet files.
The pc then started ok, but kept freezing. Restarting was required and scandisk ran again.
This happened many times, despite trying everything i could think of to fix it.
Eventually the PC even froze during scandisk, so I used a boot disk to start the pc and ran a full surface scan. The surface scan appeared to stop several times, although pressing enter to get 'more info' seemed to restart it.
At about 38% the pc returned a couldn't copy data error. Pressing retry froze the machine.
I considered that the hard drive might have a problem so I disconnected the hard drive and fitted a spare one. After formatting it I tried to install Windows XP. Again this went so far and then the PC froze again.
Can anyone think of any reason why I might be experiencing these problems, because it is new to me. Any help would be much appreciated.
It is a fairly decent machine and until recently ran without problems.
Problems apparently began following a crash during connection to MSN Messenger.
Scandisk ran after restart and found and truncated some files from the content.ie5 folder in temporary internet files.
The pc then started ok, but kept freezing. Restarting was required and scandisk ran again.
This happened many times, despite trying everything i could think of to fix it.
Eventually the PC even froze during scandisk, so I used a boot disk to start the pc and ran a full surface scan. The surface scan appeared to stop several times, although pressing enter to get 'more info' seemed to restart it.
At about 38% the pc returned a couldn't copy data error. Pressing retry froze the machine.
I considered that the hard drive might have a problem so I disconnected the hard drive and fitted a spare one. After formatting it I tried to install Windows XP. Again this went so far and then the PC froze again.
Can anyone think of any reason why I might be experiencing these problems, because it is new to me. Any help would be much appreciated.