[personal profile] docwebster
I just put the just today kaput C drive in this machine as a slave to see what I could salvage and the answer is pretty much everything. So easily was I able to do so, I decided to run a disk check on it. The results were no file system errors and not one bad sector. So what the hell happened?

Date: 2006-07-01 04:56 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] helen99.livejournal.com
Maybe the boot file somehow got dinged, or there's a boot sector virus. This may leave the actual physical sectors of the disk intact, but eat system files necessary for bootup.

Then again, like [livejournal.com profile] katharinakatt said, it could be a Windows problem on that disk. I plan to get a spare external disk and just back everything up periodically, since the larger disks and faster computers seem a bit less reliable than the old clunkers were.

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