So, I consider myself to be pretty decent with fixing computers; that is, I can research my little *censored* off and find out whatever I need to fix the problem, often times trying multiple solutions off of forums just like this one.
However, I'm stumped.
My ex boyfriend installed Windows XP on my computer using a slave drive after a power outage corrupted some system files. A few weeks later, my computer started giving me stop error messages (more recently F4, but prior to that they were KERNEL_INPAGE_DATA type errors). Finally, everything just clonked out and it defaulted to my Gateway's restore -- which failed miserably. I had to use my XP disk to get into command prompt and reformat.
Now, if my computer lags or I hit a major CPU spike of some sort, I get a stop error message followed by a "Disk error, Press a key to Restart" screen.
Is this a failed hard drive? Or is this as a result of Windows XP being installed via a slave drive like error F4 hints at? Also, when I boot my computer I get the "Choose which OS you'd like to boot," type message -- prompting me to choose between Windows XP Home Edition and An Unrecognized Operating System located on Drive C:. It's probably worth mentioning that I had Ubuntu installed on another partition prior to my last reformat...
I haven't opened up the tower to see if maybe there's a secondary drive hooked up (I'm assuming there is some sort of restore drive... <_<) that could be causing this... is that even a possibility?
Thanks for any and all responses in advance. I'd really like to get back to playing games on this thing.
