Knackered HDD? or somthing else?

[Maximilian]

Hey, i got this friend and his dog reset his comp while he was playing generals (clever dog) and now it says primary master unable to boot or somthing similar. Now i first thought that his hdd is bust, but then i thought the OS could have been corrupted (windows XP), I know that reinstalling windows XP might help if its not the HDD but why would it do this in the first place?? bad hdd?? bad luck?? its quite an old computer so its the old type reset button that dosent prep the hdd for a reset. Correct me if im wrong with that as somone told me the hold down reset buttons prep things to be reset and the old hit once and reset buttons dont. I think hes got an Athlon 1400+ i dont know any of the other specs (mainly cuz he dosent know them himself)

 

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Originally posted by: Soviet
Hey, i got this friend and his dog reset his comp while he was playing generals (clever dog)

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Originally posted by: Soviet
Correct me if im wrong with that as somone told me the hold down reset buttons prep things to be reset and the old hit once and reset buttons dont. I think hes got an Athlon 1400+ i dont know any of the other specs (mainly cuz he dosent know them himself)

Looking at the approx age of his PC would say this is extremely unlikely to cause the HD to go wacko and that this hasn't happened to me ever. Maybe the boot partition got messed....just tell him to reinstall over the existing copy so data is retained (if useful and indeed available).

 

[Maximilian]

I told him that, but he said that he turned the pc off and left it for a while then came back and somhow it had switched itsself back on, weird eh (dog again?) who knows. Anyways its fixed for now and if it breaks again ill just advise him to get a new pc when pci-e and all the other stuff is out. Its about time he replaced that old thing.