I am trying to determine if I really have a hard drive failure. I'm running XP pro. While running EXCEL this morning, my computer froze. Could do nothing but turn the power off and re-boot. Upon re-booting, prior to getting to the Windows screen, I got a message about can't find the hardware. Re-booted again, this time it said there was a problem with the hard drive and it ran a check disc. Took about 6 hours. While it was running, it said there were about 8 to 10 problems - had to do with the IE5.1 temporary files. It finished and booted to windows XP.
I thought all was ok. Finished by Excel work. Printed it out ok. Came back later to a black screen with the same initial message about can't finding the hardware.
I called Gateway - Tech advisor had me run a program from the Recovery disc that checks the hard drive. Program said hard drive failed. Tech rep said I need to get a new Hard drive.
Is this correct or are there other possibilities?
Gateway 1400cs
tel 1400MHz Pentium 4 FAT 32
40GB Hard drive
Right now its checking file system 86% complete.
One message "THe size of the \PAGEFILE.sys is not valid."
Any help would be much appreciated.
john0109
I thought all was ok. Finished by Excel work. Printed it out ok. Came back later to a black screen with the same initial message about can't finding the hardware.
I called Gateway - Tech advisor had me run a program from the Recovery disc that checks the hard drive. Program said hard drive failed. Tech rep said I need to get a new Hard drive.
Is this correct or are there other possibilities?
Gateway 1400cs
tel 1400MHz Pentium 4 FAT 32
40GB Hard drive
Right now its checking file system 86% complete.
One message "THe size of the \PAGEFILE.sys is not valid."
Any help would be much appreciated.
john0109
