Hard disk error is sign it could fail

Wednesday, November 5, 2008 - 10:21 in Psychology & Sociology

Q. The 40-gigabyte hard disk on my older Dell Windows XP computer has been giving me this error message when I try to start it: "primary hard disk 0 failure - no boot device available - no bootable device." But if I let the PC sit for 10 minutes, then restart it, it works as it should. It seems the computer works only after it has "warmed up." Any ideas?

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