primary master fails

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Hello could anyone help me. I have had my system do an automatic update from
windows and when it hascompleted the shut down and reboot afterewards it now
shutsdown automatically and says that the primary master fails. It then
instructs me to press F1 to continue but I am not able to do so. Sometimes it
won't happen for a while and then sometimes it will happen several times in a
row.

I have trend micro 2007 installed and there does not seem to be any viruses
or worms. Please someone help much appreciation in advance.
 
angie said:
Hello could anyone help me. I have had my system do an automatic
update from windows and when it hascompleted the shut down and reboot
afterewards it now shutsdown automatically and says that the primary
master fails. It then instructs me to press F1 to continue but I am
not able to do so. Sometimes it won't happen for a while and then
sometimes it will happen several times in a row.

I have trend micro 2007 installed and there does not seem to be any
viruses or worms. Please someone help much appreciation in advance.
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Your hard drive is dying, if you can get it to boot, back it up now!
save the porn !!!!!!!

Clark
 
angie said:
Hello could anyone help me. I have had my system do an automatic update
from
windows and when it hascompleted the shut down and reboot afterewards it
now
shutsdown automatically and says that the primary master fails. It then
instructs me to press F1 to continue but I am not able to do so. Sometimes
it
won't happen for a while and then sometimes it will happen several times
in a
row.

I have trend micro 2007 installed and there does not seem to be any
viruses
or worms. Please someone help much appreciation in advance.
Click to expand...

I would suggest that you take this message at face value and replace the
primary hard disk - that is the "primary master" referred to.

I would also suggest that you do this as soon as possible, using the system
as little as possible in the meantime. Don't bother scanning,
defragmenting, diagnosing, etc. It's not worth it.

Failing drives have an unknown remaining lifespan, and once you hit that
point, you're going to have to pay to get the data off it. You should
expect bills from hundreds to thousands of dollars.

The fact that this message appears before the system has passed the POST
checks indicates that the problem has nothing to do with an operatng system,
because the system doesn't know it has one at that point.

New 250 gig hard disks can be had for under CDN$75, and that's probably a
lot less than the value of your data.

You might want to try cloning the existing drive to the new drive if you
have access to another machine with sufficient space. At least, take an
image of the failing drive; this is often the fastest way to get a copy of
the data. You can use the 14-day trial version of Acronis TrueImage Home.
www.acronis.com

HTH
-pk
 
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