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<blockquote data-quote="eaterbooger" data-source="post: 31452" data-attributes="member: 3604"><p>Billy nailed it. I think I just had a brain <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/2012/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" /> in telling you the chkdsk /r. (I was thinking "r" for repair). </p><p>Good that you have Avast already. Your probably right on target about it being old as opposed to a virus. I just seem to point that out as I have found over the years people seem to neglect that and your standard Windows XP disk wont come with any virus protection. One time my sister got a bad virus on her easy child, crashed the hard drive. I went over there and replaced the hard drive and got setup up and going. At that point I left leaving her specific instructions to get Avast as soon as she got online. Well she apparently forgot and I think it was 3 weeks later I was over there replacing the hard drive again. (Her hubby always got on some really shady sites so I wasnt surprised) </p><p>So anyways I always try to make it a point to anyone these days!!</p><p></p><p>When your done doing the chkdsk trying running the setup again and see if it will take the OS. </p><p></p><p>By the way your on step 2 of 3 according to Microsofts own advice. 3rd step says replace the HD if chkdsk doesnt work. :frown:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811150" target="_blank">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811150</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eaterbooger, post: 31452, member: 3604"] Billy nailed it. I think I just had a brain :censored: in telling you the chkdsk /r. (I was thinking "r" for repair). Good that you have Avast already. Your probably right on target about it being old as opposed to a virus. I just seem to point that out as I have found over the years people seem to neglect that and your standard Windows XP disk wont come with any virus protection. One time my sister got a bad virus on her easy child, crashed the hard drive. I went over there and replaced the hard drive and got setup up and going. At that point I left leaving her specific instructions to get Avast as soon as she got online. Well she apparently forgot and I think it was 3 weeks later I was over there replacing the hard drive again. (Her hubby always got on some really shady sites so I wasnt surprised) So anyways I always try to make it a point to anyone these days!! When your done doing the chkdsk trying running the setup again and see if it will take the OS. By the way your on step 2 of 3 according to Microsofts own advice. 3rd step says replace the HD if chkdsk doesnt work. [img]:frown:[/img] [url="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811150"]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811150[/url] [/QUOTE]
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