On a friends computer a scan disk revealed that there was a possible bad sector on her hard drive.
Since then I have not been able to get past repeated scandisk screens that go nowhere.
I tried a boot disk I had (just downloaded the one you offer & will try it next)--with F8 I went to Command Prompt where I did an F disk. then create a partition using the whole drive.
Still getting the scan disk screen.  What next??
Thanks for your help,
Lorraine

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