[shezdoni]

If he is only having progress by booting off the disk then their probably is trouble in the hard drive.
I still think reformatting it will solve your problem.

If the HD is bad, no amount of reformatting is going to clear away the error, the only way to do that is install a new HD, and using the old one as a slave drive,

[ironman71635]

I would try a reformat before i went spending money on parts

[rogue655]

I smell a porn-virus. LOL

i hope not, haha. because it happened when my girlfriend was using it

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you don't need to reformat it, because all the stuff you had on your hard drive is still there, the problem is, the hard drive is not receiving instructions from the mother board ( electrical problem ).

The only solution is to replace the hard drive, and make the Hard drive that is in it now, the slave drive instead of the master ( basically 2 drives in your system ),

How old is this computer?

the computer is a little less than a year old. i called tech support and apparently my HD is not bad. because the windows update failed, windows has been corrupted. the easiest fix (thats the way he described it would) be to transfer any files i want to an external HD or working computer. put the original drive back in and restore my laptop to factory settings.

anyone wanna donate to my SATA cable and external hard drive fund?