Twinbird24
Member
If you have no DVD drive and no OS disc then the solutions to your problem are limited. It was already suggested that instead of running memtest from a disc you run it from a USB flash drive.
However, I think you should fix any possible software issues first (as it's not clear if your problems are because of bad hardware, damaged software, or both) unless you have some spare compatible HDDs, motherboards, RAM, etc. that you can swap in place of the potentially damaged hardware on the PC.
So first you should backup all your data. Can you remove the HDD and plug it into another PC? Do you have a 140GB+ USB HDD? Once the data is backed up, you should reformat the HDD (if you don't have a spare Windows installation lying around perhaps you could install a version of Linux).
However, I think you should fix any possible software issues first (as it's not clear if your problems are because of bad hardware, damaged software, or both) unless you have some spare compatible HDDs, motherboards, RAM, etc. that you can swap in place of the potentially damaged hardware on the PC.
So first you should backup all your data. Can you remove the HDD and plug it into another PC? Do you have a 140GB+ USB HDD? Once the data is backed up, you should reformat the HDD (if you don't have a spare Windows installation lying around perhaps you could install a version of Linux).