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It's an IBM and I had to order a Windows recovery disk ($45 plus shipping; would have been cheaper, I suppose, if the PC was still under warranty). I bought a hard drive (the one CC was going to install) and will attempt to start it up when the recovery disk arrives, probably early next week...

I checked the owner's manual, and it looks like I'll need to order (unless I can find someone who has) a recovery CD. Thanks for pointing this out. D'oh! I suppose I will then need to re-download SP2, the same way I did originally?

Good question. The manual that came with the PC said there's a read-only copy of XP stored somewhere on the PC. Can it be anywhere but the hard drive? I downloaded and created 6 floppy boot disks last week as mentioned above. Can I use these?

I checked it out last weekend, and unfortunately it wasn't a matter of a loose connector, or anything else that was obviously wrong. I ended up taking it in to Circuit City and after a day, they said the hard drive was shot. Nothing could be retrieved off of it. They offered to put in a...

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I'll try to open it up this weekend and see if I can figure anything out.

Starting a few days ago I can no longer boot up my PC (Windows XP). Almost immediately I get a screen saying Windows is unable to start, sorry for the inconvenience and gives me the option of restarting normally, trying to restart with the last successful configuration, or various types of safe...