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Chris Down
12-05-2006, 03:36 PM
... that is the error message I get from my PC when I try and boot up. It shows on the screen after the memory check.

I know this is very vague, but what should I do? Maybe you could list some things to check, that'd be great.

Thanks,

Chris

EDIT: I tried to completely format with Killdisk, but it tells me there is an issue with the A: drive. (Bad CRC, which I'm presuming to stand for Cyclic Redundancy Check.)
EzyStvy
12-05-2006, 03:48 PM
What's the history behind the problem?

Is it a new build?
Did you wake up one day and turn on your trusty ol pc and get this error?


The CRC error is probably from a bad download. Try again.
Chris Down
12-05-2006, 03:56 PM
I turned it on at 5:00am this morning, booted fine, looked ok...

Didn't do anything, my bro had turned the internet off and it was on his room so I switched it off... and when I came back it was like that.

It did give me a CRC error for one of my downloads a week or two ago, but I thought nothing of it and deleted them from index.
glc
12-05-2006, 04:23 PM
Most likely a hard drive failure.
Chris Down
12-06-2006, 02:24 PM
So what would the general fix be?
EzyStvy
12-06-2006, 02:32 PM
Replace the drive would be your only fix if its dead.
glc
12-06-2006, 02:39 PM
Determine the brand of hard drive and download the diagnostics from the manufacturer's website. If your floppy drive is dead, then get the CD .iso version. Run the tests, if the drive fails, start shopping for a new drive.
Chris Down
12-07-2006, 06:47 AM
Determine the brand of hard drive and download the diagnostics from the manufacturer's website. If your floppy drive is dead, then get the CD .iso version. Run the tests, if the drive fails, start shopping for a new drive.

It's a Maxtor. I've downloaded the diags, and tried both CD and floppy...

If I try and load the floppy version, it gives me the (bad CRC) error.

If I try the CD it says:

"Boot from CD...
Press any key to boot from CD..."

So I press a key, and the screen goes blank. I left it on for a while to see if it was just ultra-slow, but it still hadn't loaded after 4 hours.

... so what would that suggest?
EzyStvy
12-07-2006, 08:40 AM
You could try hooking up the drive in another pc and see if you can format it there.