Sounds like your drive problem might have been stuck read/write head.  I don't have 
a HW problem, and after running FIXBOOT from Console and got it to the point it says 
the BOOT.INI can't be read and then the \system32\ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupt. 
 Onward . . . to data . . . hopefully ;>






On Monday, February 21, 2005 at 12:48 pm, Bill wrote:

>Actually, my solution was stupidly easy. I took my HDD out and basically gave it 

>a good knock on the center with my knuckle, and it started up perfectly. Now I'm 

>keeping it in hibernation mode, and haven't had any problems since. I'll probably 

>still look into buying another HDD just to make sure I have a useable one. I'd hate 

>to reformat my secondary drive and lose all that info.

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