I hate friends of friends with computers....

I have a friend of a friend with a HP (Pavilion 7915) computer, and it crapped out recently, so my friend's friend had another's friend's teen son wipe the HD clean. Unfortunately, the friend's son who wiped the HD didn't know what to do after that.

THAT'S WHEN THEY FINALLY THINK OF CALLING ~ME~!

I am trying to install XP to this (Celeron1.1 G, 128MB RAM) sys, and I am seeing things I have never seen before. The OS loads VERY slowly, and furthermore it keeps saying it's can't copy many files... one file after another. I've been hitting escape to ignore the ones it can't load (since that is not a new problem to me)...but it's so bloody SLOW.

Is VERY slow performance a sign of impending HD failure?  Or what?

Just asking.

Thanks for any insights, you brilliant and very helpful people, you.  :)

Laura








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