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Originally Posted by red-beard View Post
If he's getting a partial boot (see's the XP logo), the disk controller is probably OK. It sounds like a corrupted sector. It's a "stuff happens" thing.
That's why I said to run chkdsk specifically "chkdsk c: /f" that goes through and repairs bad sectors and has fixed many boot issues for me.

The reason I said check in the bios everything about the hdd is because he said it wasn't recognized in the recovery console and the bios screwing up a setting is usually the culprit of that.
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