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    Inspiron 1720 Vista Home Premium - boot error HELP!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Bex1720, Apr 15, 2010.

  1. Bex1720

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    Hi,

    Hoping someone might have encountered this problem before. I have a 3 year old Inspiron 1720 running Vista Home Premium with a recently (about 12 months ago) replaced HDD. Has been running fine until about 2 weeks ago when it's started randomly coming up with a Boot error on startup (not everytime, totally random). If I go into the Boot Menu and use the reinstall disk to repair it it'll re-start fine, but then a few days later the same problem re-occurs.

    I've done a full virus scan (using Trend Micro Internet Security Pro - latest version and up to date) and checked the start-up menu for strange files but can't seen anything suspiscious.

    Is this the first signs of a hardware failure or maybe something else?? :confused:

    Any suggestions appreciated!!

    Thanks :)
     
    Bex1720, Apr 15, 2010
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