XP - Crashed

[Slynky]

Backups how? I mean, don't you have to be in operational status to do backups? And if in operational status, are you just taking precautions.

Pardon me for being dense.

[Suicide Junkie]

I once had my disk go all wobbly on me (wobblwobbl-ker-tink), but with repeated startups into quick-booting, no-disk-use DOS and a few minutes worth of copying at a time before the disk destabilized and required a power down, I was able to copy it off.

Quite scary at the time; all the best of luck to you on the backups.

[Atrocities]

The reboot went off without a hitch. I don't know what caused the error to occur with windows, but I went ahead and told it to shut down anyways once I finished my back up.

So far it has been working fine.

[DeadZone]

You considered getting a new PC full-stop?
With all the problems you have, might be worth it
Or at least get someone who knows computers to take a look at it

Just outta curiosity, what are your specs for this machine?

[mac5732]

my son had the same problem, only he let it finish, he then lost everything. after cking with tech support etc, it was found that it was the windows update security program< think it was the 2nd pack or something like that, apparantly when it downloads, it corrupts all the files. Don't know if this caused your problem, but for the above, the only thing I found to prevent it, is to disable your windows update auto program and not to upgrade any of the security packs listed in the updates. He was able to recover about 75% of what he lost by reinstalling the OS, however, he did not have video or audio, He will have to reload all his drivers after he reformats his Hard drive... He installed over the current Version and had to reboot several times before he was able to access his files. He had the window updates on auto XP sucks
Glad I have windows 98 2nd ed, I have problems, but not to the number of headaches he's had with XP