Well I am on my parents computer the one that I had to fix a few days ago and now my computer is down and its been almost a whole day!!!

I was just surfing and it rebooted and ****, it says something about broadcom and I figure ill have no choice but to do a format or something, because F8 doesnt show safemode options only disc, cd/dvd. I goto the setup in XP install and it gets to the point where you install and it says "<setup cannot access disc.>" so i press d to delete partition and it goes to a black screen, i try to press c to create a new partition and it doesnt do anything.

I also tried to use the recovery console and use fix mbr, format c:, and diskpart and they all arent faring well. I checked in the bios and it recognizes the hard-drive is still there. I am considering using MaxBlast and format it from there, if things drag on i'll just delete everything to get it back up.

This sucks, my XP install lasted from 2004-2007 I was hoping to keep that streak alive for a few more years lol. This is the first time I asked for help on any forum too.

Also a friend of mines computer went down, it seems that the computer problems just strike multiple times, but god damn! this is me were talking about here, I never had a problem hit me like this lol.

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try to get new HDD

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I have a spare 40gb one laying around but thats a downgrade lol

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Well, it seems im dealing with my first ever dead hard-drive. XP is currently installing on the other drive, I lost some data but I still have backups allthough they are out of date they will do for now.

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Once you get the 40gig up then plug in the old 1 but you have to change the old hd to slave or master I cant remember and you should be able to see all the sh!t on that drive. At least thats what I've done.

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The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars”

Finally I have gotten XP installed and got it internet setup, now browsing in Opera, I have a long way to get every setting back to normal but things should be quick now.

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lol.. i love the name of this post.. reminds me of grandma's boy during the DDR scene hahahahah.. High score?? what's that mean??? Did I break it??

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We stay fresh to death, We the best, Nothin less!!! .~' City Stars '~.

How strange you mention that, because someone asked me if i saw that movie before and I never have, OH BOY the coincidences live on!

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highly recommended.. mad funny movie... go watch it... NOW!!!!!

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We stay fresh to death, We the best, Nothin less!!! .~' City Stars '~.