Ok, so I come from work one day and my BIOS has this message (or something very similar):
"Harddrive master failure."
If important, here is my computer:
Windows XP Prof.
AMD Athlon 3000+ processor
1gb PC3200 RAM
Hard drive: Maxtor 160GB 7200 RPM
nVidia 6600GT graphics card
So I reboot and it goes into checkdisk and it repairs a few files and then it reboots again and goes into Windows. All is fine so it seems, but then a few hiccups happen. For example, some programs take longer to load, I get more slowdown when multi-tasking, and games lost some frame rate.
Will this problem (likely) be fixed by replacing my hard drive and re-installing XP? Will reformatting likely do it? I use an external for 90% of my data so it would just be a day of work to take care of it, but a pain, and I'm planning on getting a new system during the Christmas sales this winter, but it is a bit early.
Thanks for any help, in advance.
"Harddrive master failure."
If important, here is my computer:
Windows XP Prof.
AMD Athlon 3000+ processor
1gb PC3200 RAM
Hard drive: Maxtor 160GB 7200 RPM
nVidia 6600GT graphics card
So I reboot and it goes into checkdisk and it repairs a few files and then it reboots again and goes into Windows. All is fine so it seems, but then a few hiccups happen. For example, some programs take longer to load, I get more slowdown when multi-tasking, and games lost some frame rate.
Will this problem (likely) be fixed by replacing my hard drive and re-installing XP? Will reformatting likely do it? I use an external for 90% of my data so it would just be a day of work to take care of it, but a pain, and I'm planning on getting a new system during the Christmas sales this winter, but it is a bit early.
Thanks for any help, in advance.