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Solve : That stupid "access denied" error!!!?

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maybe, backup everything and reformat will solve this.Not a good sign.
DLoad the free diagnostics from your hard drive manuf. website...use them to create a bootable CD and run them on that drive.
It may be getting READY to fail and this will tell you yes or no.
Do you have your data backed up ? ?Quote from: patio on October 01, 2007, 03:24:04 PM

Not a good sign.
DLoad the free diagnostics from your hard drive manuf. website...use them to create a bootable CD and run them on that drive.
It may be getting ready to fail and this will tell you yes or no.
Do you have your data backed up ? ?

Ummm... Just before I do that, what do you mean by:
"Do you have your data backed up ? ?"

That makes me worry. The drive diagnostics is not going to harm the drive.
However if the drive is failing that is why i asked about backups. There may not be much time.
A system i worked on just this week had a clicking drive that had just started the day before...it's dead now.Oh, okay.

Yes, I did backup my documents.
I'll see what I can find to make a bootable CD.

Either Intel doesn't have one or I am just to lazy to look at the entire website.Intel does not have one.


What is more, I can't do ANYTHING now.
Can't even open folders that I created!No, my hard drive is not failing.

I might just try a clean install of XP.
But thank you to all who helped.

John.Who makes the hard drive ? ?
As far as i know Intel doesn't...Quote from: patio on October 04, 2007, 05:55:51 AM
Who makes the hard drive ? ?
As far as i know Intel doesn't...

They don't?
Because when I look under "DISK DRIVES" the manufacturer is "standard disk drives", but when I look under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers there something called "Intel 82801DBM Ultra ATA Storage Controller - 24CA", whatever that is.Quote from: kuszmania9999 on September 30, 2007, 10:15:14 PM
maybe, backup everything and reformat will solve this.

I plan to do that soon...I remember I was messing about with file extensions when I got this error.
It was because every time I opened a folder it would pop up the search companion.Quote from: dairyman on October 04, 2007, 09:27:26 PM
Quote from: patio on October 04, 2007, 05:55:51 AM
Who makes the hard drive ? ?
As far as i know Intel doesn't...

They don't?
Because when I look under "Disk drives" the manufacturer is "standard disk drives", but when I look under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers there something called "Intel 82801DBM Ultra ATA Storage Controller - 24CA", whatever that is.
That is the IDE controller that runs the HDD.
Open the case and look for a label on top of the drive...I ran a clean install of Windows XP and my computer is now WORKING.
Thank you to everyone who replied.Quote from: dairyman on October 04, 2007, 09:59:18 PM
I remember I was messing about with file extensions

This and other tinkering is probably the root of ALL the problems. Quote from: dairyman on October 06, 2007, 05:51:07 PM
I ran a clean install of Windows XP and my computer is now working.
Thank you to everyone who replied.
After all, you take my advice

Good to hear its working again.


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