If you are having issues with your hard drive or have corrupted files, its a good idea to boot into the Recovery Console and run a hard drive scan. The advantages are this does not require you to boot into Windows. So if your computer is unable to boot into Windows; don't worry.
If you have the Recovery Console installed
If your PC has the Recovery Console already installed whether you did it yourself or it came from the manufacturer that way. When your computer first turns on hit the F8 key every second. When the menu comes up; look for 'Boot using Recovery Console'. If you see it great, click on it and lets get going.
If you do NOT have the Recovery Console installed.
Ok no big deal. Insert your Windows XP Home or Professional CD in and restart your PC you should see 'Press any key to boot from CD...' click any key, any one will do. At the first menu hit 'R' for Repair. It may ask what version of Windows to boot into you probably want to choose the one that says C:\WINNT. It will ask you for the administrative password, you will need to know that.
Once you are in type
chkdsk /r
It will run and hopefully find and repair your hard drive errors. If it says 'Your hard drive contains one or more unrecoverable errors' you may have to replace your hard drive.
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