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snowyweston
Doesn't have much of a life
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As above really, forced to restart my computer last night and got this in POST.  I just managed to get into windows this morning by using F8 to select the OS HD manually (it's set as the boot HD in BIOS but repeated restarts/shutdowns last night didn't seem to do anything) Google pulls up lots of forum queries, but mostly all talking about Acronis-related issues, and since I'm not running Acronis (nor had been doing any kind of tweaking of late) - I was just wondering if anyone could shed some light? Am I looking at a new HD? (it's pretty old, about 4-5 years) 
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| Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:02 am |
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okenobi
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Location: Sestriere, Piemonte, Italia
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Most likely your HDD is on the way out. Can't be 100% sure, but sounds exactly like it.
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bobbdobbs
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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sounds like your on your way to FUBAR central.
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Nick
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BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP!!!
Have you tried the fixmbr command?
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snowyweston
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Thankfully all my beloved data resides on other drives (which I have removed from the machine for now) - and I'm a good way through my "to-DVD" backing up already... Oh well, all is not lost - at least this'll give me another chance to consider moving onto XP finally. That or I'll just reinstall 2K on a new HD. 
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okenobi
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Yay! Move to XP and get yourself a 1TB Samsung F1, they're lovely.
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snowyweston
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What another one?  No - I will only be buying a diddy HD for me OS. I might even consider an SSD.
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Nick
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Did you try fixmbr K?
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snowyweston
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I'm not trialing anything. I never turn my computer off anyway - so I'm just keeping cpu loads down to a minimum whilst I wrap up the last of my backups then I may have a fiddle on the weekend And anyway, I've no money this month so I'm going to risk resuming use-as-usual and force it to die before I buy anything.
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