jasey_2000uk

no, i took it to a local computer repair shop and the guy knows all the ins and outs of pcs. He took the side off and checked the hard drive and mother board, etc, whilst i was there. he said sometimes the hard drive makes a clicking sound if its damaged but mine wasn't doing that. he is goin to have it until tuesday and see what he can do. hes also going to try and save my files too but he said he dont know if he can until hes checked it all over to see how damaged the hard drive is. fingers crossed though. jason

thx 4 your help. yeh, sumtimes the disk boot failure message appears or it just freezes on the logo screen. I am taking it to be looked at today and hopefully, i may be able to rescue my files, all being well. ill let u know what happens. jason

hi. didnt think my pc would be playing up after 5 years. didnt think that was long to have a pc. yes, that message does come up telling me to insert disk and press enter. i dont have a floppy drive on it. though last year it picked up a virus and i had to have it restored to factory settings at a computer repair shop. hope this can be sorted as ive loads of mp3s on there and other valuable files. thanks. jason

hope someone can help me! i have had my emachines pc for about 4 or 5 years now but last night, i switched it on and a message came up saying something like "INSERT BOOT DISK AND CLICK ENTER" i havent got any systen boot disks and i turned it off. I then turned it back on again but it just comes straight onto the emachines logo screen and then freezes on it, although the hard drive is still making a sound. please help! thanks! jason