I recently vacuumed the dust out of the inside of my desktop PC. Lots of dust.

Now I am getting a bunch of crashes. Sometimes I just get a hanged-up screen, black escept for a mouse pointer. Sometimes a CHDSK process starts up without my requesting it. Sometimes I get a desktop with errors. When I use Internet Explorer to open tabs and pages, I get multiple instances of IXEPLORE. Firefox will not run at all, but it used to.

... And other random stuff.

I have tried the recovery disk that came with the computer. It saved my stuff and reinstalled windows. Did this twice. It helped but still have problems.

The trouble got worse when I re-installed the Sound blaster Audigy that has been on this machine for years. Got better when I physically un-installed it.

Sound Blaster installed AOL, and I am unable to get AOL uninstalled.

If this is my C: drive failing, what can I do? How can I get another C: drive with WIn XP onit?

Any other ideas?


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