I can press F while it's trying to boot and get into setup. When we returned home 90 minutes later, the laptop seemed warm and it had a black screen that read "A disk read error occurred press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart." When I do that, I get the red Compaq logo briefly flashing, then the same disk read error again. I ran the install, and it was still installing when it was time to leave the house for a bit. I decided to run Adaware as well I hadn't downloaded it onto the laptop so I did that (when the heck did it grow to 92MB?!?). I updated MB, ran it, and it found nothing. Anyway, I figured I'd run ATF Cleaner and Malwarebytes just to make sure there wasn't anything more insidious going on. It seemed a bit sluggish today while I was doing some stuff on-line, but our internet service was spotty as well today and kept slowing to a halt and then dropping. It has a CDRW/DVD-ROM drive but no floppy drive. I'm not sure what flavor hard drive it has and am not sure how to check. I got it second hand and don't have any Windows CD's (though fwiw the product key code is on the sticker on the underside). Ent=41949:LaptopSetupSm.jpg]I have a Compaq Evo N610c laptop running Windows XP Professional.
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