Satellite A10 - doesn't boot up properly

I have an A10 Satellite and i can't boot up even last known good configuration or safe mode doesnt work and if its booting up it will take a long time but a blue screen appears and says that an error occured and its preventing any harm to the hard disk.
I put in the recovery cd but i didnt get the xp cause it says starting windows 98 but im running an xp pro which i got when i bought the laptop. So if any one out there can help???

HI Johan,
If you are unable to boot from your hard drive then your only other option will be to boot from a CD-ROM.
Most commercially available backup utilities (Norton Ghost, Acronis True Image, etc.) include such a bootable CD. The Product Recovery CD supplied with your notebook is most likely a cut-down version of Norton Ghost which is specifically designed to format your hard drive and then restore a 'Ghost' image of the original OEM software.
It is quite possible for your hard drive to be damaged and still have the LED come on when it is being accessed. The damage could be to the physical mechanism of the drive, or to the surface coating of the platters etc. A bootable CD from one of the backup utilities will probably include a version of CHKDSK which you can run to test the integrity of your hard drive. Norton, for example, include a copy of Disk Doctor.
If you have a copy of the original Windows installation CD, you can boot from that into the recovery console, and try to repair whatever is damaged on your hard drive assuming the problem is only corrupt or missing files. In principle, you could use the XP Home Edition CD to do this only if the damaged files are not specific to XP Pro in which case they will not be on the HE disk.
HTH

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