Ronnie. This sounds more like a corrupted installation of windows. Whoever you are getting to help you with this, instruct them to format the hard drive and re-install windows from scratch. Ensuring of course that any of your personal data, eg. music, documents, stored on the hard drive windows is installed onto is backed up. Repairs only do so much and clearly it's not working here. Hard drives dying normally power off the computer or in most cases make noises indicating hardware failure. If you google, hard drive dying sounds you'll find some you can hear. Dj Paddy Ôà ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronnie Hill" <ronnie.hill@xxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 10:17 PM Subject: [access-uk] Is my hard drive is going to die? Hi Friends, About over 2 weeks ago suddenly my computer volume was in mute and then it freeze up when I refreshed my computer the window won't come up . The screen background window was in black and the texts was in white. Anyway someone installed for me the window and he done Window repair to revive the window and lucky all my programme and my data wasn't affected. I also find that all window Micro update were empty that I was using with window Service pack 1 so I updated first the Window Service pack 1 and then for the first time I also update the Window Service pack 2 it was all successful. So I was happy to work back on the line again. But sadly this weekend my computer was freeze up almost a same way as before and it needed to revive window once again a same way as before. My question Is: if my hard drive starting showing to die although it working fine at the moment? Or it can be a kind of virus attack? Is there Anything I can do to prevent that happened again? My computer Model is DELL-83.. Home edition, 240 hard drive gig, 1024 Ram, Free AVG anti virus my computer is 2 years old. Thank in advance for any information . Cheer Ronnie ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq