XP Pro starts blank screen. Event id 52. Hard disk Fail

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Rex

I had black screen problem at startup that kept rebooting on Toshiba Satelite
A30 Laptop with XP home edition SP2. Managed to fix it for one day before i
started recieveing stop error...registry hive file error. I tried applying
fixes with help of this forum but I was getting one problem after another.

I decided to format hard drive and reinstall XP Pro SP2..(did not have home
edition). When i boot up, i get the toshiba splash screen before the laptop
goes blank (no mouse cursor either). Nothing i press makes a difference
until i press F1 which then starts the boot up procedure and lets me log on
normally. I really want to understand why i have this blank screen and would
lov to get rid. I am able to log on. The event viewer shows:

"Source: Disk, Event Id:52, Description: The driver has detected that the
device \Device\Hardisk0\DR0 has predicted that it will fail. Immediately
back it up."

This is the same error that caused my home edition to fail initially. Any
suggestions will greatly be appreciated.

Thanks Rex
 
Try booting to xp cd,recovery,select 1 for C: press enter for password,type:
CHKDSK C: /p See what results it comes up with.If bad sectors,type:
CHKDSK C: /R Type:EXIT After its thru,restart xp..If bad sectors are
true,you
will need a new hd soon.You can also run the MS-DOS disk checker from the hd
mfg web site,it will give more info..
 
hi Andrew.

(thank you for responding so promptly. Sorry it taken time for me to reply.)

Thanks for the advice. I have ran CHKDSK /p before whilst trying to repair
the home edition. Previously it came up with the result that there are bad
sectors. When i ran chkdsk /r and it did a strange thing. It reached 50% and
really slowed down. Then took ages to get to 72% and then jumped back to 50%.
It reached 100% but when i ran CHKDSK again straight after it came up with
the same bad sector result. I have now reinstalled laptop with XP Pro SP2.

You are the first person to confirm that a new hd may be required. I had
been thinking the same but no one has advised me of that. Although the
laptop boots up by pressing F1, the event viewer logs the initial blank
screen problem as a hard disk failure advising backing up of any data as
failure is imminent.

Thanks for your help andrew.

Rex
 
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