can't boot into windows, need major HELP!!

[nurdonsite2]

ok im gonna make this short. i was cleaning out my comp, i disconnected and took out the power suplly and cleaned it too. then when i go to power up my computer, it POSTS and then gives me a disk boot failure and "insert disk" to continue (or something like that). ok so then i try clearing the cmos and it works and i get into windows. then when i restart my comp, it kept on rebooting after hte win xp logo comes up (after the part where the bar moves across the bottom of the win xp logo). so then i fugure that the partation table is corrupted and i reinstall windows. then i reboot several times and everything is fine. i then turn it off, move it near my tv to watch a movie and again its giving me the same boot error. ive treid several times to clear cmos, but with no luck. PLEASE HEELP ME!!!!!!!!!

btw........im runnign an abit nf7-s, 2500+, maxtor 40 gb hdd (which does some clicking and i think its on its way out).

thanx fot any help.

[jman01pa]

Originally posted by nurdonsite2
btw........im runnign an abit nf7-s, 2500+, maxtor 40 gb hdd (which does some clicking and i think its on its way out).

thanx fot any help.

I believe your hard has already left.

Do you have a spare drive you could hook up and at least test out the system with?

[Bill in SD, CA]

Can you run the Maxtor diagnostic disk on it?

Bill

[nurdonsite2]

i treid that one b4 but it would ony detect my Sata channels (even though they were disabled from bios) and there was no option for selecting ide channels. i can't run it now since my spare com doesn't ave a floppy drive of a cd writer so im stuck. it has to be the HDD right? but then how was it that i was able to partation it and reinstall windows? and that it would reboot if i did it from windows but not a cold boot? ok now im confusing myself lol.

[nurdonsite2]

guys another thing i just remembered..........sometimes when i restart it, the hd shows up (in the bios) as weird letters and symbols and someimes its detected correctly. this is sugesting to me that it is infact the harddrive.

[Bill in SD, CA]

That happened to me before right before mine died.

Bill

[nurdonsite2]

ok, this hd refuses to die lol. all i did was change the jumper from cable select (which had been setting for all of the time i have had this hdd0 and wola..........it boots into windows. i tried shutting it down and restarting it, and no probs. but......i shouldn't get too excited and i should probebly use my time to backup all of the important data on this hd cause i ahve a feeling that this is still not over. hehe.

thanx for ur help guys.