PC Died

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Whilst playing Age of Empires, my PC screen went purple for 3-4 seconds then turned itself off. Now everytime I turn it on it won't load windows and I get an error message about some kernal files are missing and I need to contact my support person.

So, what's the deal? Windows is corrupted? It's a SATA HDD so I can't put it in any of the other PC's in the house to get the data off.

Quite a few music albums/photos I would have liked to keep, but it's no big loss in the long run. Rather have my PC working again.

Maybe I should just buy a new HDD and save the old one to get the data off in the future?

So anyway, you guys got any idea how I can sort it?
 
If your on XP you could put your Xp disc in on boot and select the repair option when it loads.

You might need to go into the bios first and check your boot priority list so that it boots from the CD instead of the hard drive
 
If you can backup the existing data onto a spare disk, i would recommend a Norton Ghost boot disk to do the job.

Then re-build your Pc, you could however depending on how wise you are to repairing windows boot from the CD into the recovery console and try replacing the files that are being reported as missing.

But it sounds like something has gone south with the Windows Install and corrupted serveral system files.
 
Thanks for that so far guys, I've tried putting my Windows XP disk and but when it gets to the "entering setup..." stage, I get a BSOD and the PC restarts.

I'll give it another go in a while and report back. I reckon if I just order a new HD D and fresh install and it'll run again, but I'd love to get it working with the crrent one.
 
I need a hard-drive that will be compatable with Shuttle XPC ST20G5, will a Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache work with it?
 
If you have SATA connections avaliable on the board or on an expansion card then yes, even if there SATA-I SATA II is backward compatible.
 
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