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Old February 26th, 2011, 02:56 PM
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well every time i restart my pc, i have to reinstall windows xp because theres always a file missing at start up, theres no viruses found in my pc. i reformatted my pc at least 10 times and reinstalled xp at least 10 times. but theres an issue. every time i restart my pc, i get a message saying theres a file missing, but its always a different one. sometimes its a driver, sometimes its a system32 file and alot others. but theres no viruses, because i format my hdd and theres no folders or files in my hdd when i format.

heres all what i have done..
- reinstalled windows 10 times (at least)
- reformatted the hdd 9 times (5 times the long format)
- used malware bytes and always detects no virus
- during use of my pc, i gete blue screen of death (BSOD)
- after blue screen of death goes away, it restarts and then after boot screen (with windows logo and loading bar) get the blue screen every time.

so right now, if i restart my pc, im gonna have to reinstall my computer!!
i need professional help.
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Old February 26th, 2011, 03:50 PM
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any decent computer shop you can take it too?
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Old February 26th, 2011, 04:10 PM
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Have you ran a hard drive diagnostics check using your hard drive manufacturer's bootable CD? There is a chance that your hard drive may be starting to fail.

I think that it gives more of a "peace of mind" if you completely wipe your whole hard drive by having a utility write zeros to all hard drive sectors. That way you have a high level of confidence that no Malware remains on the hard drive. The above bootable CD usually has the zero write option. A zero write may take several hours, depending on your hard drive size.

After the zero write operation is complete, you format the hard drive and install the Operating System.
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Old February 27th, 2011, 01:11 AM
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In addition to what TheKid7 suggested you might try some sort of memory test that you can run from the cd/dvd drive. If you built your machine you might also check the memory setting in the BIOS. I had a problem where my BIOS wasn't giving my memory enough voltage and I kept having problems installing Windows.
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Old February 27th, 2011, 08:50 AM
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A couple of examples of memory testers are:

Memtest86
Dr.Web LiveCD (Select memory test from boot options.)

All of the memory testers listed above test the memory from a bootable CD. You download the ISO image, burn the image to a CD-R and then boot from the CD.
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Old February 27th, 2011, 11:25 AM
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The next time you have to reload xp why don't you run a linux live cd, you could even install linux to your hd using a live cd.

If linux works without any problems then you may have a corrupted or infected xp install cd.

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Old February 28th, 2011, 05:17 AM
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I have seen this behaviour twice before. First time it was a bad cdrom drive, second time it was a cracked XP version.

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Old February 28th, 2011, 05:08 PM
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My guess:
scratched CD, bad hardware, wrong forum section
 

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