Definate WTF M8

[Nate]

Ok so I am scrolling down in FF and then this BSOD comes up.  Im like WTF, w/e.  I restart my computer and it boots up but with about 1/3 of my icons that should be on the desktop.  Im like "ok then" and i restart my computer.  Now when it goes to load, all it says is "Invalid System Disk".  I just dropped a Win98 startup disk in there but i haven't seen what it did yet.  Any ideas?

[GameSnake]

God hates you.

[Newby]

Sounds like your hard-drive bit the big one.

[Nate]

When i stick the start-up disk in it sees everything on c:/.  I think my MBR bit the big one.

[iago]

You can fix the MBR with the Windows Recovery Console (off the Windows XP cd).  I forget how, though, Google would know.

It does sound like a bad harddrive, though.

[Nate]

Im gonna have to assume its not the HDD because i can move files from c:/ to d:/.

[Newby]

Files (icons on your desktop) just don't disappear.

Sorry.

Run chkdsk.

[Sidoh]

That'd be my suggestion too. Run chkdsk.

[Nate]

CHKDSK says its fine.  SCANDISK says its fine.

[Sidoh]

CHKDSK says its fine.  SCANDISK says its fine.

Hmm. Aliens abducted your hard drive and probed its anus?

[Nate]

Suppose i should have looked into that BSOD.  I think it was my video card driver blowing up because before the computer stopped getting to Windows the resolution was all messed up.

[Nate]

Anyways i have to reformat now.  I think ill drop WIn 2000 on there and not WinME.  But now its time for me to be 1337 and lock this topic.

[trust]

I feel your pain, only in a greater way.

[Joe]

Yeah, trust lost his porn. chkdsk is a microsoft utility.. why'd you suggest it? Use the.. linux.. thing.