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dellhell

The drive is suspect here and the only way to check it properly is by running these diagnostics. I don`t know any other way.

Can you not use another machine which can burn a CD for you?

aceknight

Erasing the whole drive will wipe out XP and all your files.
If you need to rescue data slave the drive in another machine and try to access your files that way.

If you need more help with this try posting in the Hardware forum and tell them all you have done so far. You may have to get a new hard drive I`m afraid

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