I have a machine running windows xp home sp2. it was a fresh build and working fine when it went out a few months ago. Customer brought it back today and it won't install any new hardware. you try to start add new hardware and it says that it is already installing new hardware and try again later. It never finishes either. It also will not open a cd. it will pull up the label in my computer but won't open it. I also cannot add a usb pendrive ( we are trying to recover data from it. ) as the hardware wizard is busy. I tried turning stuff off with msconfig and that helps some ( start up errors go away ) but still has the above mentioned problems. This did have f-secure anti-virus on it but that seems to be having startup issues as well... currently scanning for virus but so far nothing .... just wondering if anyone had other ideas...
oh can't put the drive into another machine at the moment as it is a sata drive and I dont' have another avalable machine.