new hard drive failure? I haven't owned computers very long but i've learned more from broken computers than computers i've had some axces toover the years. I'm stumped on this one. Desk top Dell Dimension XPS T550 pentium3 slave HD IBM 13.6GB and new WD 2500JB drive parameters LBA48839168 250 gb only know what half of that MEANS. 512 mb ram biaos verversion A11 TSST CD/dvdw sh-s162 secondary ied slaveLighteon dvd rom ltd 163. Forgot WD is primary master. got computer used it was having prolems so I reinstalled windows XP pro and not knowing much made a mistake somewhere and all memory used up in 1 week. so I went out and got a driver wash. did wash and cp would not no matter what I did show the old Maxtor HD went on line with Dell detremined that HD was bad. Went and got new WD HD. Installed windows XP pro copy disk. Every thing great then trying to uninstall program everything started flashing and shut down. On restart screen goes into bios fine both hd their every thing looks good exit bios and nothing but blinking cursor. I TOOK slave and installed it in primary and put wd in slave installed windows on that could view every thing on wd hd but not my things that I was working on at the time of the event. So I did another driver wash installed same system downloaded sp2 right away. Good for about two weeks. Than another event. Turning off cp for weekly cleaning didn't even get to the cleaning wife WANTED to go on line and view things. Turn system on and same screen blinkie. I don't want to go through all again and again. I do reg maintance on cp both to sw and HW as well. clean machine runs well. Im on old dell latitude that was told by geek squad would never work right now just needed a little tlc. Never had any problems with lap top and it uses the same windows disk as desk top. Want to save info from WD than RETURN and throw down the extra $ for quality hd. PLEASE IF YA GOT HART HELP and from now on I will take time to back that thang up.It's difficult to tell exactly what happened by your style of writing, and some of your terms are not accurate. Filled up memory in 1 week? I guess you mean hard drive. Driver wash? Who knows what that means. You may want to start over to clarify.

At the very least, every computer needs it's own legal copy of Windows.