When I was searching for ways to fix my computer's most recent problem, I came across a previous post with pretty much the same problem that I seem to have.
It was posted by Kahalista in the following thread:
http://www.techsupportforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=63614
Last Sunday (Sept 25, 2005) I downloaded three anti-spyware programs. They all seemed to work fine and I had no problems. This past Thursday, I set my computer to defrag overnight and when I woke up in the morning, I found that the screen was displaying a message that said that the OS could not be found.
I shut down my computer and when I turned it on again a minute later, it would not boot up and was making clicking noises. When I tried turning on my computer several hours later, it loaded XP ok. I tried to burn my files onto CD so that I could try to reformat, but after my computer would start the burning process, a screen would come up stating that the OS could not be found and the clicking would begin again.
I recently reformatted my computer in May (due to problems I think with a virus although my antivirus software never picked up a problem and it was up to date), so I don't have a ton of files on my computer. But nevertheless, I would like to try and retrieve them. Is there any way I can get my files off my computer so that I can reformat it? (Assuming reformatting will help.)
Just to give a little more information on my computer (in case it helps), it is an IBM Thinkpad (model A31 I think) running XP Pro. I got it in August of 2002.
Thanks in advance!
RedPlanet
It was posted by Kahalista in the following thread:
http://www.techsupportforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=63614
Last Sunday (Sept 25, 2005) I downloaded three anti-spyware programs. They all seemed to work fine and I had no problems. This past Thursday, I set my computer to defrag overnight and when I woke up in the morning, I found that the screen was displaying a message that said that the OS could not be found.
I shut down my computer and when I turned it on again a minute later, it would not boot up and was making clicking noises. When I tried turning on my computer several hours later, it loaded XP ok. I tried to burn my files onto CD so that I could try to reformat, but after my computer would start the burning process, a screen would come up stating that the OS could not be found and the clicking would begin again.
I recently reformatted my computer in May (due to problems I think with a virus although my antivirus software never picked up a problem and it was up to date), so I don't have a ton of files on my computer. But nevertheless, I would like to try and retrieve them. Is there any way I can get my files off my computer so that I can reformat it? (Assuming reformatting will help.)
Just to give a little more information on my computer (in case it helps), it is an IBM Thinkpad (model A31 I think) running XP Pro. I got it in August of 2002.
Thanks in advance!
RedPlanet