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dunerider5

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I was playing Counter Strike when all of a sudden my comp crashed and restarted. It had done this a few times in about a 2 week period. The last time, I started getting messages when trying to boot up saying something is wrong with windows/system/sys.ini. Every time after that it only says "DISK READ ERROR INSERT BOOT DISK PRESS RETURN TO RETRY" or something like that. I dont have a windows cd:(

I asked a guy at a local store and he sayed my partition on the hard drive failed, and to bring it in so they could check it out. He was a penis though so I dont really want to go back. Its a western digital HDD and its only one year old, but I dont think it has a warranty, it was oem from new egg.

What are my options??? Can I buy a new hard drive with windows pre-loaded onto it? I just cant afford the full price of windows.

BTW this is in the general section because I dont know if it is a HDD problem or not, thats what one person said.
 
dunerider5 said:
I was playing Counter Strike when all of a sudden my comp crashed and restarted. It had done this a few times in about a 2 week period. The last time, I started getting messages when trying to boot up saying something is wrong with windows/system/sys.ini. Every time after that it only says "DISK READ ERROR INSERT BOOT DISK PRESS RETURN TO RETRY" or something like that. I dont have a windows cd:(

I asked a guy at a local store and he sayed my partition on the hard drive failed, and to bring it in so they could check it out. He was a penis though so I dont really want to go back. Its a western digital HDD and its only one year old, but I dont think it has a warranty, it was oem from new egg.

What are my options??? Can I buy a new hard drive with windows pre-loaded onto it? I just cant afford the full price of windows.

BTW this is in the general section because I dont know if it is a HDD problem or not, thats what one person said.
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go download windows from torrents and reformatt :D
 
Have you considered using a different OS like linux?

go download windows from torrents and reformatt
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Go read the rules and then you'll understand why comments like that get you in trouble.
 
I wouldn't mind having linux at all. But I have no idea where to get an install disk or how to install it with this current problem. I tried downloading it and making a boot disk once, but it didn't work.
 
Yasu said:
Have you considered using a different OS like linux?


Go read the rules and then you'll understand why comments like that get you in trouble.
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my bad, it was more of a joke :eek:
 
Every time after that it only says "DISK READ ERROR INSERT BOOT DISK PRESS RETURN TO RETRY" or something like that. I dont have a windows cd:(

You dont have a cd or floppy in any drives:confused:
 
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