Shenan Stanley wrote:
francis said:
i have a couple of wordpro files saved and lately when i try to
open them, i get nothing... i do a check disk (auto fix system
errors) and it works, then in a couple of days, it stops working
again.... any ideas for what the heck is going on... have winxp
home...
You do a CHKDSK and things work for a while and you are willing to
sit and wait for the complete failure?
Backup all files important to you elsewhere. Favorites, contacts,
emails, pictures, documents, spreadsheets, etc...
Download and run the hard disk drive manufacturer's diagnostics
utility on your hard disk drive.
thank you for your sarcastic comments, apparently i am in the wrong
newsgroup, i thought this was "newusers" for unknowledgeable people
like myself... guess i will have to ask HP to help me to find out
what you are talking about and where to find it...
You consider that sarcastic?
I wasn't commenting on your computing ability - I was wondering if you were
using common sense and backing up your stuff now?
I don't think it is sarcastic if someone is sitting in a room of gunpowder
striking matches to ask if they have thought about what they are doing. heh
Plus - this is a NewUsers group - for WindowsXP. I believe your problem to
be quite possibly a hardware issue - which is why I suggested the hardware
solution.
Backup your stuff - now.
Go to the hard disk drive manufacturer's web page and get their diagnostic
tool (physically open the computer - look for the name on the hard drive -
type the name into a browser with .com after it - look in their support
area - find their diagnostic tool, download it and any instructions and
follow the latter in using the former.)
If the drive is bad - replace it. If not - a low-level (writing zeros to
it) might fix it - but might not. You can try - this means you will have to
reinstall everything. Thus - backups. Also - during this testing - things
might be found that were bad - marked as such - and your system become
unuable (because the drive was bad and needed replacing.)
