Looks like my brother's hard drive is about to give up the ghost.
His desktop died a death a couple of weeks ago with a black screen saying that NTLDR is missing.
After much internet searching, I tried replacing the relevant files - but no go, so I ended up reinstalling Windows XP - I didn't do the reformat stage - it's on a recovery partition and I didn't want to lose a lot of the stuff he had.
It worked and he was happy, however, it's gone and done it again today and there's a sort of clicking sound coming from the tower.
I take it the hard drive is well on it's way out and it's going to need replaced.
Two questions - any recommendations on a decent hard drive - bad news being that it's an IDE drive (PATA, whatever you call it).
Next - the fact that he doesn't have XP discs cos it's on a recovery partition - does anyone know how I would get his XP over to a new drive?
I have XP discs but they're Dell discs and won't work in a non-Dell PC.
His desktop died a death a couple of weeks ago with a black screen saying that NTLDR is missing.
After much internet searching, I tried replacing the relevant files - but no go, so I ended up reinstalling Windows XP - I didn't do the reformat stage - it's on a recovery partition and I didn't want to lose a lot of the stuff he had.
It worked and he was happy, however, it's gone and done it again today and there's a sort of clicking sound coming from the tower.
I take it the hard drive is well on it's way out and it's going to need replaced.
Two questions - any recommendations on a decent hard drive - bad news being that it's an IDE drive (PATA, whatever you call it).
Next - the fact that he doesn't have XP discs cos it's on a recovery partition - does anyone know how I would get his XP over to a new drive?
I have XP discs but they're Dell discs and won't work in a non-Dell PC.