[Dr. Bang]

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Originally posted by sfr:
I'm one of those people too! Last month, my 60 GB IBM hard drive crashed, it was 5 months old. Everything on the disk was lost, it had to be replaced.

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SFR! Have you been living under the ground for the past 1905432905902902 years or something. 90% Percent of IBM hard drive will crash within the first year!!! i hang out at the HardOCP forum and i know. DO NOT EVER BUY AN IBM HARD DRIVE. My six years old Fujitsu HD is still working as good as new. Anyway, next time u buy a HD, should go with maxtor, seagate....anything except for IBM.

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[gigatron]

Well well well, i gotta post in here too, I had a looooong history with hard drives and i gotta say fujitsu drives are fantastic and damn... IBM just plain sux (my father works at IBM lol but u know what...their hard drives..well at least the inexpensive ones SUCK ASS and DIE FAST! hey does that rhyme? no? well anyways).

Hmm win2k not booting? Shit could be a lot of stuff going on ... but u could do several things. Lets see here.

I see you have it in my documents, installing (repair installation process) wont change your my documents In fact unless the windows installation is possessed by some evil spirit, none of your 'extra folders' and their content will be deleted or changed heh, the only stuff that changes is windows dlls, exe, com or whatever that windows will install.

Hmm what i did in the past was a couple of things and well, one of them would be boot to DOS (and if its NTFS use the NTFSDOS thingy Allows you to read stuff even though its encrypted heh), OR you could attach a new drive install a winblows in there and then access the 'old' drive get your stuff, so on and so forth. I currently have a Fujitsu baby in mine (/me pats his hard drive), i gotta tell u, losing data SUX ASS, and it has happend to me in the past, but i wish u best of luck. I skipped alot of the stuff that ppl posted but these are my 5 cents I hope it helps if not ya :P

[Equinewiz]

hmmm I have a habit of doing seem freaky stuff to make my computer not work I think something may have happened to me before btu its hard to tell without actually being there to see what is happening to yours. Luckily I have my trusty brother to fix everything. He actually managed to fix it without formatting. Most of the time something like that meant soemthing was wrong with the hardware. How old is your computer?
I recommend the Norton AntiVirus 2002 as a really good antivirus especially if you have cable or dsl. You can keep the Autoprotect and and it catchs any virus instantly that someoen may give me over the internet. I download a lot so I also do a full scan of my system also every week.