[Ham-Computers] to XP or not-XP: that is the question

[john]

Try booting the machine while holding down the F8 key (Safe Mode) defrag and "Index" the drive THEN reboot with the CHKDSK/F command Win 7 home is available on E Bay and Craigslist.org You will need to FORMAT the hard drive to get a clean install 

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From: "Doug Hensley" <w5jv at hotmail.com> 
To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 10:20:57 AM 
Subject: [Ham-Computers] to XP or not-XP: that is the question 

Speaking of Windows, I have two questions: 
(1) Does anyone have a source for a least expensive home edition of Windows 7? 
(2) I thought my XP unit had hung while moving a file. I had used Defragmentation toAnalyze a disk (check its fragmentation) and seeing one file was spread, I did a cut andpaste of it to move it from C: drive another drive called D:. 30 minutes later I glanced at the screen and saw it was still "copying". Well, I thought this was a hung system soI hit the reset button. 
Since then the machine won't boot up. I made the standard recovery CD and ran these: 
chkdsk /rchkdsk /p /r 
And they took a long time but did not report back anything other than they had found aproblem. Gave up, went to sleep. 
This AM I turned the box on and a blue CHKDSK screen appeared announcing it was looking at a problem on drive D:. After it finished, it said it found a corrected a problemdrive index. Then it sat there. So I hit reset again. It is now back to the state of notbooting up. The C: drive is 7 years old and has had modest use, maybe 20% of those daysit got turned on at most. My thought is to pull it, put a new hard drive in and biting thebullet, go to Windows 7. The caveats are: some of my software such as Office 2000 andthe like will no longer be useable (as told to me by a W7 compatibility check) and I willhave to spend another week of my last days trying to get the machine to behave normally. 
If anyone has "been there, done that" and can suggest or offer suggestions, please getin touch. 
73, Doug W5JV/NNN0BXX 



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