Hard drive not detected at boot up

Hi,

Recently I have had the sasser virus that caused my pc to shut down with a
couple of boxes telling me why (with a count down). I believe I have got rid
of it but my PC hangs after about 20 minutes and eventually restarts of I
have to re-start it. The hang usually coincides with a loud clunk from the
hard drive, then nothing.

I re-start but the boot sequence stops as it cannot detect hard drive, or if
it gets on to the second screen, it says it cannot find to boot record, etc.
Even with a boot disk it will go to a black screen saying there is a hard
drive / hard disk error.

I have to turn it off for about 15 minutes and try again. Then I might get
anther 15 - 20 minutes use before a clunk, hang, re-start, can't boot.

My hard drive is 'clunking' a lot more every now and then and my user
profile is not working. New ones I have put on will not save any settings.
The whole thing is a mess.

Should I just get a new hard drive or try formatting my current one? It is 4
years old, 30Gb.

Thanks
Stu

"Stuart Roberts" wrote in message
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Hi,

Recently I have had the sasser virus that caused my pc to shut down with a
couple of boxes telling me why (with a count down). I believe I have got
rid
of it but my PC hangs after about 20 minutes and eventually restarts of I
have to re-start it. The hang usually coincides with a loud clunk from the
hard drive, then nothing.

I re-start but the boot sequence stops as it cannot detect hard drive, or
if
it gets on to the second screen, it says it cannot find to boot record,
etc.
Even with a boot disk it will go to a black screen saying there is a hard
drive / hard disk error.

I have to turn it off for about 15 minutes and try again. Then I might get
anther 15 - 20 minutes use before a clunk, hang, re-start, can't boot.

My hard drive is 'clunking' a lot more every now and then and my user
profile is not working. New ones I have put on will not save any settings.
The whole thing is a mess.

Should I just get a new hard drive or try formatting my current one? It is
4
years old, 30Gb.

Thanks
Stu



If your hard disk makes clunking noises then it's probably on the
way out. This has nothing to do with any virus. Download & run
the free diagnostic program that your hard disk manufacturer
makes available on his home site.