i have win xp pro on my main pc, and would like to stay on xp till support finishes (which i think is this year lol)
anyways, i had a massive gaming tower and and it was ugly, so i bought a new tower and psu on 27th Dec, fitted all goodies together and nice smaller compact fit on desk and no probs.....till yesterday, it wouldnt boot up
i took it back to Aria, and it was a dead PSU, swapped, now working again.
BUT, after playing about with chkdsk it has killed my hdd i think (ok, i think it was already dying) as it takes 10 mins to do post boot screen, then i get either a reboot of blue chkdsk page or starts to load xp, just depends on what it wants to do
then if i let it do chkdsk, it takes hours to complete, but if it decides to run xp, i get egg timer n screen for an hour, then loading page for 20 mins, then background page on screen appears but no icons, and after 1 hr, teh lower task bar shows, but empty only clock in right corner, then 2 hrs later icons start to appear, but can't open or click on them
is this a sign of failing HDD?
and now my next question, i have never, and i mean NEVER backed up a hdd, so how easy is it, and how do i transfer all data from failing ide drive to a new sata drive?
thanks in advance
p.s. i am typing this on my lappy as pc has a few more hours to go till it fully boots i think lol
anyways, i had a massive gaming tower and and it was ugly, so i bought a new tower and psu on 27th Dec, fitted all goodies together and nice smaller compact fit on desk and no probs.....till yesterday, it wouldnt boot up
i took it back to Aria, and it was a dead PSU, swapped, now working again.
BUT, after playing about with chkdsk it has killed my hdd i think (ok, i think it was already dying) as it takes 10 mins to do post boot screen, then i get either a reboot of blue chkdsk page or starts to load xp, just depends on what it wants to do
then if i let it do chkdsk, it takes hours to complete, but if it decides to run xp, i get egg timer n screen for an hour, then loading page for 20 mins, then background page on screen appears but no icons, and after 1 hr, teh lower task bar shows, but empty only clock in right corner, then 2 hrs later icons start to appear, but can't open or click on them
is this a sign of failing HDD?
and now my next question, i have never, and i mean NEVER backed up a hdd, so how easy is it, and how do i transfer all data from failing ide drive to a new sata drive?
thanks in advance
p.s. i am typing this on my lappy as pc has a few more hours to go till it fully boots i think lol