why wpn't my disk drives come up

i have tried almost every possible remedy that i can think of i checked the bios and auto detected the drives there i restarted the system a couple times and still nothing do you guys have any suggestions

if it helps my computer says at startup that incd wasn't installed properly and won't work

 

windows xp stuck at splash screen

every time i try to start up my pc it gets stuck at splash screen and doesn't go anywhere and i have tryed everything that i could think of i disconected all extra hardware all tsb devices made sure the bios knew what it was loading even left it unplugged for a certain amount of time and i leave it alone for hours and it still doesn't come on sometimes it does if it does again what can i do to prevent this from happening again but if it doesn't how can i get through the splash screen

 

Re: windows xp stuck at splash screen

Start by running checkdisk

First empty your recycle bin , clear the internet explorer cache, search and delete all .tmp files.

This will speed repair up.

open mycomputer and right click on the hard drive

choose properties>toolstab>checknow

tick both boxes for fix files and fix sectors.

A dialog box will appear saying it can't check now, do you want to check on next restart

click yes

restart

 

Re: windows xp stuck at splash screen

well when it does come up by some sort of miracle it takes a long time to open up a single program it takes a full half hour just to open the darn thing and when i am ready to do something it freezes up making me shut it down and have to wait the entire day just to try to boot it up again

i guess its safe to say that i screwed up the boot up (pun)