I downloaded "Recover My Files" but now my computer is acting funny. What should I do?

Question by Red: I downloaded “Recover My Files” but now my computer is acting funny. What should I do? The program took 7 hours to scan my portable hard drive and it located all of my missing files. Now I have a big problem. I can move my mouse around, but it wont respond to [...]

How can I tell if a computer's hard drive is physically damaged?

Question by man: How can I tell if a computer’s hard drive is physically damaged? I am having boot problems with XP and several Recover command prompts are turning up bad results: FIXMBR – ” . . . The disk may be damaged” FIXBOOT – “The boot sector cannot be fixed” CHKDSK – “The specified [...]