Can anyone help me?
I am running win xp home SP2 from an oem original disk.

About 5 weeks ago, turned on pc, booted into windows, scandisk screen came up and checked D:/ drive (contains working files). Comleted ok, then went on to check C:/ drive (contains o/s,DRIVERS and programs). Started deleting files, about 20, but did not fix or recover files. It then froze. I rebooted BUY nothing.

Clean INSTALLED o/s (reformatting C:/ drive only) and all other drivers and programs.

All seemed ok (except of course that C:/ drive was now D:/ drive and visa versa). However every time pc was switched on scandisk would check C:/ drive.

Then 2 weeks ago whilst trying to download a windows update got an error message 0x80072EFD. Went to ms site, showed 2 possible solutions to this problem. Tried the first without success so tried the second but this did not solve problem either.
Rebooted pc, ran POST then screen went black.

Tried several times to boot. Cannot get into 'safe mode' screen. Can get into
BIOS (SET up han not changed). Gave up and DECIDED to reinstall.

This gets as far as 'press any key to boot from cd', which I do. The next screen   ' set up is inspecting your computers hardware configuration' comes up then the csreen goes black.
My hard drive set up is 2xseagate baracuda 80Gb sata drives mirrored.

Before I strip the pc down can anyone suggest a solution.

thanks in advance.
Oops, forgot to give spec.

M/b Epox ep8rda3+ rev 3.2 bios update 8rda3+34729.rar dated 23/08/05
AMD athlon 2500+ barton with alaska 3400 copper base with8cm fan.
500w power supply
2xbaracuda 80Gb sata, mirrored hard drive
2xkingston 256mb ddr pc3200 400Mhz
Sappphire radion  9200se 128mb
Liteon 52x32x52x16x combo
Win xp sp2 oemTry reinstalling to ONLY the primary hard drive by disconnecting the second drive.

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