XP SL300 startup HARD drive problem?

Hello

I have a Lenovo SL300 with Windows XP.

Yesterday, I was connected to a network 3G via the built-in modem and my mobile phone via bluetooth. Everything worked normally, and I remember to shut down the system normally.

This morning, however, I wasn't able to boot the system and whenever a blue screen appeared for about a half second, do not leave enough time for me to read.

I suspect that something must be wrong with the hard drive as when Windows starts immediately after the first part of the boot process indicator the blue screen appears again.

I seriously need to access my computer.

Could you please help me?

Thank you very much.

C3PO

Just to let others to avoid this mess.

I installed any update of windows, no driver, no update of the bios update.

However, the value in the Config > Serial ATA (SATA) > SATA Controller Mode Option [Compatibility] was for some reason changed to the Mode SATA Controller [AHCI] Option. Back to the [compatibility] mode allowed the computer to access the disk hard and Windows at startup and now everything works fine.

I don't know how it happened.

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