My computer is on a contunios recycle when I try to boot up, when I do get it to boot up with the recovery cd, it will start the recovery process and then tells me it cannot find the hard drive. I have a MSI KTV6 mother board if that helps. I have also been haveing instant shut downs when STARTING the computer before this happened. Kinda suspecting my power supply. I do have the XP program. I have started in in the safe mode and it does the same thing. This computer was built for me, and I'm not sure if I have all the information on all the components.When you say "cannot find the hard drive" do you mean it cannot find the installation?


If you can, boot into the recovery console and run a chkdsk /f This will look for errors and attempt to correct them. After it has run fully try the recovery process again and see if it can find your installation.The better switch is chkdsk /r, but I don't think that's going to help.
I'd suggest downloading memtest and running a diagnostic on ram.
Have you run a full anti virus scan recently? What happened before this problem arose (new hw, sw, virus, error, etc)?
Can you try a different power supply?When the system is loading, it gets to a POINT in the installation that says "no hard drive found", recovery cannot continue, select F3 to restart, then goes back and restarts trying to load xp, to the same point again. Allen
I guess I'm not sure how to download memtest on the computer as I can't get in to do anything.
Also the power supply I'm referring to is the computer one, are you suggestiing getting a new one? I did try to put in a new hard drive, but it gets to the same point as the old one and won't go any farther.
I was running AVG on the computer before this happened, so thats the only virus scan it is getting. No new hw, sw was added prior to this, The machine was left running overnight to scan and it was in the recycle mode in the morning when I woke up.
Sorry I'm a little challanged on some of this.If you've tried a different HD then it's ALMOST certainly not a virus (and you can FORGET about running chkdsk). Download memtest on a different computer, copy to cd, boot to that cd and run the scan. If the memory passes the test then yes, you might want to try a new PS - just make sure you buy it from a retailer who will take it back in case that's not the problem.OK I've got it copied to a DISK, but how do I get it the computer to boot to that disk, I've tried booting with my recovery disk, then inserting the copied disk, but is there a "F" key I can press to tell it to go to the cd drive? Sorry I'm being a problem child.Did you download the .iso file? If so, did you burn the .iso file to disc (with an .iso burning utility)? The resulting disc will be bootable.