Ok, so my 4y/o is playing games on my Dell( about a year old, running XP, and have comcast internet service).
"Daddy, computers broke!" Thats nothing new- he's usually just "x-ed" out of whatever he was playing. Well this time there is some comcast program open and most of icons are missing from the desktop. I hit the start buttom and most of the selections there are gone too. I figure, WTH, I'll restart the computer......
While its booting up it comes to a screen...
"NTLDR IS MISSING"
"PRESS CTRL-ALT-DLT TO RESTART"
so I do that and come back to the same screen again.
Do it again, but this time I hit F12 and get to a diagnostic screen, run all the available hardware and memory tests and everything comes back ok except for error - Error Code 0F00:137B
MSG: IDE Device Failed
Then it told me it needed a disk in the drive....
But it still won't boot up.
Any advice before I have to call a help desk in some third world country....
