boot problem
Running windows xp sp3
computer has been running fine and has alot of data on it that is valuable to me and my time
has showed some slowing but nothing that would predict some ensuing failure
ran norton today and came up with a few spyware items
after this I needed to restart computer later in the day to logon another user and computer locked
after this I get data read error press ctrl/alt/del
I cant get to hard drive data, i cant even boot off a cd
I ran all the preboot tests 1 and zeros ...
comes back good
but still data read error
throw in windows cd and pc wont boot from cd, not even let me run diagnostics that normally start anyways
what is the next step, can i recover my data without spending a small fortune??
May 6th, 2010 3:09am