Not such great news.

[f1king]

Well I had all kinds of programs on my computer which were not bought if you know what I mean, so my computer crashed. Now I have windows XP with nothing, and yes I bought this one. Does anyone know if having all those programs crashed my computer or I just had a bad hard drive???

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

I dont think all those programs would do that sort of thing. I think you just got a taste of what windows is known for.

 

[Shannon]

Possibly. If you downloaded them programs - there is agood chance one or more of them may have been infected with a virus or worm.

Or you could just have a ****ty computer. I'm suprised mine hasn't crashed!

 

[f1king]

Well I have a Dell laptop 8100 with 250 bits of ram, a 10 gig hard drive, and 866 P3 so I think its a good computer, well it should have been, now im afraid to load KAZA on my computer do you guys think its ok>

 

[Solid Fro]

Originally posted by f1king
Well I have a Dell laptop 8100 with 250 bits of ram

No wonder your computer crashed. You only have 250 bits of ram! I doubt you could even load DOS with 250 bits.

Seriously though, Windows 9x always crashes for various reasons. I doubt any software, whether it was bought legally or downloaded illegally would make Windows crash and unbootable. I have Kazaa installed on my XP pro system and I have no problems with it being installed or downloading programs and having them installed.

 

[Pako]

What more do you than XP? Stay away from cracked/patched software, as there's no telling what's in it. How many registery entries did you have? Sometimes with Gb's of programs being installed, eventually, it will all come to a bloody end. This is to be expected if you install a lot of programs. Make backups of the good ones and junk the rest.

Think of it this way, after you reinstall XP, you'll have a freash computer. Now I bet there's at least couple of 'those' programs that you won't download/install a second time.

Good luck, be safe, stay legal, and never travel without your hand towel.

 

[f1king]

Originally posted by Pako
and never travel without your hand towel.

I never do.

But how does a program cause hardware damage??

 

[Pako]

Originally posted by f1king

I never do.

But how does a program cause hardware damage??

Well, I don't think that software can, necessarally. Did your HD in fact fail? Have you run diagnostic software on your drive specifically from the manufacturer? Software can 'strain' harddrives into thinking that they've been corrupted in some sort or fashion. I was partitioning a extended logical partition. I decided to consolidate some of the smaller partitions that were emty but I had to move them. Well during that moving process the HD failed and caused files to cross link over 80gb's data. Now if I wasn't doing that process, the HD probably woudn't have failed. It was nearly brand new and showed to prior signs of failing.

Now what was the question?

 

[f1king]

Well my hard drive was exactly a year old to date, its capacity was 10 gigs and I used about 6.5 gigs worth of space. I should signs of failing months ago, but didnt take the blue screen to seriously. The HardDrive gets to the point were it loads the OS windows 2000 pro and right before the bar fills up, it reaches about 75% and it locks. So does that sound like a bad HD??

 

[Pako]

What brand/model is the harddrive?

 

[f1king]

Its an IBM Travelstar

 

[Pako]

This isn't in a laptop is it? If you go to http://www.ibm.com/support/ and lookup your PC/Hard drive specs, you should find a Disk Utility Program that you can run before the computer boot's up to check physical integrity of the drive.

 

[f1king]

It is a laptop.