My evesham recently started making a noise, I stupidly assumed it was the hard drive which I proceeded to disassemble. I put it all back together and forgot to plug in the power cable, restarted the computer it failed to detect HDD obviously so I started fiddling with the Bios, cant remember what I'd changed had a couple of Stellas and went to bed. Having had a second look I discovered the disconnected power cable, plugged it in and rebooted. 1st I got HDD instant
recovery system 6 options all gobbledygook to me, I tried them all and nothing happened. after this it goes in windows failed to start correctly with a number of options including safe mode or last known configuration that worked, or recommended start windows normally. When i try this option I get anotther screen saying checking files on C with option to wait or press any key I've tried both options and the PC just hangs and refuses to continue.
I also tried reinstalling XP and got the message 29197 Mb disk0 at Id0 on bus0 on atapi(MBR) C:partition 1 (Unknown) 29188 MB (29188 MB free) unpartitioned space 8 MB Partition is either too full, damaged,not formatted or incompatible format -Set up must format this partition, Format using (4 options) NTFS quick, FAT quick, ntfs, fat, on using any of the options the pc freezes. On restart I get the message Your partition has been modified Keep partition. Then it goes on to HDD recovery analysing disk. Option to install and keep original data Y/N I pressed y got the message Disk error press any key to reboot.
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