Originally posted by jobrla:

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Dear friends,

Here's the short of it, running XP home. Son wa shutting down computer and got the blue screen of death, he can't remember the exact error but said" If this is the first time seeing this message resart computer and if not, fallow these directions". Weeellll he did not quit do either, he unplugged it ;) When I started it back up it ran thru a scan disk. Now, when I turn it on, it will go thru the normal start screen, run thru the settings and start the WINDOWS screen. After the WINDOWS screen goes away it NORMALLY will blink a curser on a blank sceen a few seconds and the go to the user page, but all it does is goes to a blank (black) screen and stay there for about a minute, thenm the hard drive will make a small noise and the computer will restart all over again.
Is this a bad hard drive or Windows operating system?????

Any info would be very much appreciated....
Would doing a "chkdsk /r/f" do any good booting off the Windows CD?

thanks

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