ok on my grandparents computer the hard drive(i think) started making this loud grinding noise. so i turned the comp off turned it on the next day and then the comp says the registry is messed up then i reboot because windows said it fixed it. then when i booted it back up. it said that there was something wrong with a .dll. i will click ok and then the comp will flash the icons then they go blank then it go's back to loading the icons then the same error. i ran disk check but it gets stuck. Its a Dell about 4 years old. The Specs are below
Pentium 3 933mhz
37 gigabyte western digital hdd
Nvidia TNT2 32mb video card
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound Card
Windows ME
384 mb of ram pc133
Could the hard drive be failing, is Windows Corrputed, Shoudl i reformat and do a install of windows xp home editon from my old computer.my computers are built so they have windows discs(i built one and i had some do the other). could this comp even handle it. Or is it just time for a new computer.
BTW i cant even boot up into safe mode w/out it freezing up.
Pentium 3 933mhz
37 gigabyte western digital hdd
Nvidia TNT2 32mb video card
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound Card
Windows ME
384 mb of ram pc133
Could the hard drive be failing, is Windows Corrputed, Shoudl i reformat and do a install of windows xp home editon from my old computer.my computers are built so they have windows discs(i built one and i had some do the other). could this comp even handle it. Or is it just time for a new computer.
BTW i cant even boot up into safe mode w/out it freezing up.