I bought a barebone kit for someone and gave them a new computer. Windows XP Home
This maybe was 4 months ago, he calls me saying it is taking 10 minutes to boot up, and I am going insane because it took 20 seconds or so to boot up when I gave it to them, I get to his house, it sits there auto-detecting the different IDE’s
Primary Master: HDD
Primary Slave: undetected
Secondary Master: CDROM
Secondary Slave: undetected
it takes 40+ seconds to just do that, and then it goes to the next screen and says “HDD error”
I went into BIOS and made it boot from CD first, and had the XP disk in there and was going to reformat and reinstall XP, but it couldnt because it said HDD not detected… I am stumped at this because it is only 4 months old! I asked them, do you move the PC a lot? They said yes, and I was thinking it could be the HDD was shaken up and isnt reading well anymore, when I booted it up it was louder than I expected, and after a minute or 2 it got quiet… please help!
