I am currently typing this on my parents PC, because mine doesn't start....
It has been like this for a few hours now. People may remember, I made a thread about my computer being slow during startup and loggin onto the internet. This maybe related - I'm not sure.
When it starts up, it gets to the bit where it detects the IDE drives. It succeeds at this time. Then it goes to the "loading windows XP" screen. Then I get the "detecting IDE drives" screen again. I'm sure I don't usually get this twice....
This time, it just sticks at this screen, and doesn't get any furthur.
What I've done:
* The problem to all this could be that I downloaded 2 zip files shortly before the problems started today. However, I didn't open them, so I don't know if this could be true.
* About a week ago, I downloaded a knoppix demo thing, where you burn an ISO image onto a disk and boot from it. It then boots a knoppix demo. I have just tried this, and the demo still works - I can even see some all the files that are usually on my computer. This I think shows that the hard drive is intact and it has detected it.
* I have opened the case of my computer, and the wires to all my drives seem "normal".
If anyone can give any reason to why this has happened/how I can sort it out, then I'd love to hear from you!!!!
EDIT: I've also tried to start in safe mode etc, but it still does the same thing.


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