Ultimate Boot CD

Thanks for your response, unfortunately the problem turned out to be a hard drive failure, and nothing was recoverable Any way I picked up a cheap windows machine at an on-line auction, and now have two spare new drives for playing with Linux. Thanks again.

Dual boot WinXP and Pclos 2007 on Athlon AMD 2000 Desktop. I have been dual booting successfully for several years on this PC. A couple of days ago I was booted into Windows but not actively using it (tidying some papers). Suddenly I heard a slight nosie, perhaps the monitor flickering as it shuts d...