hard drive keeps running
After cleaning the virus on my desktop pc, I installed windows xp service Pack 3. During the installation process, it was a part near the end where he cleanes, it's self. It ran for more than 4 hours but no progress what so ever. I stop and restarted the pc. Now the hard drive is constantly running. Any suggestions short of 'knuking' it and start again?
Thanks in advance.
I found the problem (s). Not enough memory to sp3 and windows issues fixed with discscan. I'll keep sp2 until I get more memory.
Thanks for the replies.
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