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is it me or is it the machine (i'm sorry for even posting this).

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Carol Haynes:
You don't have to be quite so drastic in Windows XP you can use the recovery envirnment and run FIXBOOT to replace the MBR without having to reformat and rebuild.

See http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/bootcons_fixboot.mspx?mfr=true

Muadib:
Hi Nudone,

I'm preparing a old computer to give to a friend of mine, and during the process of verifying the HD before installing things on it I remembered about a wonderful and FREE set of nice tools available as ISO image called "Ultimate Boot CD" (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com), which together with several useful tools you can find a set for "partitions tools", where a specific software called SPFDisk can be used to verify the HD's surface (similar to the old DOS SCANDISK), so I grabbed my old (and hated) Samsung and I started using that software on it. Again I could confirm that old HD has a lot of Bad Cluster. Suddenly I imagined that you could use that CD to run few test on your computer. There you can find tests for memory, CPU, HD, network, etc.

I don't know if somebody indicated this CD before in the forum but it's fantastic! You can use it for several things on your computer. It worth seeing the list of softwares included in the CD, maybe you can find something to keep you busy during the weekend  :D

nudone:
ah, yes, i've used ultimateboodcd in the past. must have been a while ago - or something like it.

i should give it a try.

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