Please help with pc

Browntoa

get her to try the above then..CTRL + F11 at boot up

angelcake

its starting the recovery thanks loads browntoa - why did the computer go like this?

Browntoa

she's been looking at !!!!!! on Limewire...lol

who knows...Dells seem particularly prone to this for some reason...it could be an infected file from limewire, some viruses attack the boot sector etc...

I bought an Dell Xp home CD off ebay...cost me about £6

angelcake

She hasn't downloaded !!!!!!, she has downloaded songs thats it! but she won't again!!

she clicked on recover my computer and its not doing anything now!!

angelcake

Help! It keeps freezing on this and she is giving me a headache!!

tunesurfer

When downloading songs from limewire always make sure it says mp3 - my family where not aware of this and got loads of viruses from limewire until I told them this simple rule (you can spot the dodgy ones as there not mp3 and are usually very small in download size.).

angelcake

she only downloads mp3 files as it is for her phone and it can take mp3 files!

it keeps crashing help!

Browntoa

think the only way to do this is to get her hands on a dell XP Cd....

she needs to be able to try Chkdsk....althouh if the restore partition is having problems i'm concerned the Hard disk may be failing

Browntoa

any news on this ???

did she get it going ??

angelcake

Hi, No she is bringing her tower round in a bit so I can see as well! Is there something I can download onto a CD and try to boot it? Like some sort of medicine?