Computer help?

If your MX hard drive is ancient perhaps simply buy another hard drive and set its jumpers to master and format and load your MX to this hard drive. If your hard drive is ancient it might be having problems? I'd leave your old hard drive in your computer but leave it unhooked up so at your convience you can simply unhook the new hard drive and rehook it to the old hard drive to try to fix its problems with Norton System Works Utilities(or some other fix it utility program).I'm not too computer literate but instead of first reformating the old harddrive (If a fix it program doesn't fix the problem) wouldn't it simply be better to first simply reload the Windows XP disk to your existing harddrive without reformating the old harddrive. Then after reloading but not reformating the hard drive to rerun the registry program to correct errors if your registry program does not correct errors perhaps purchase programs that fixes problems like (Norton System Works Utility Programs). Then running one of their fix problems utilities before ever even thinking of reformating your now ancient MX harddrive disk and losing all its information.If your disk is failing you could save important files to CD's so not to lose important information if the disk itself is failing. Once you have saved all pertinent information only then ever think of reformating the old hard drive after this point in time.If you finally decide to reformat you can reload MX software and pertinent programs so if your having computer problems you can shift to this hard drive while you trouble shoot the other hard drive.I'm sure others here are much more computer literate, just throwing in stuff that you might try before erasing your now rather old an ancient XP hard drive.I like having two hard drives so all I need to do is unhook the one having the problem and hooking up to the other hard drive.This Worked for me might work for you?Edited by Bret, : edit added: If you buy another hard drive get some canned air at the computer store to blow all the dust out of the fans and inner parts of the computer. (Not that your computer is overheating but just to make sure all the fans are all operating).