The last time I received a message like that, my drive was failing.

It may mean you have bad sectors on your hard drive where Windows is 
installed, and one of the bad sectors has affected some of the operating 
systems files.

If you get someone sighted to read the monitor, I do believe you'll find it 
says much more than just press F1 to continue.

If you're lucky, then it may be just a simple bad sector, and Windows can 
correct it by running a scan disk on it, and repairing, or moving the files 
off of the bad sector, though you may have to perform a repair of Windows to 
get the file back.

If it's a much worse problem, then that means that the drive is continuously 
creating bad sectors, and the drive is failing completely, and will 
eventually die once the bad sectors become unmanageable.

In any case, if the drive is failing, you may consider getting a new hard 
drive, then cloning the contents of your drive to the new drive, and running 
your computer off the new drive.

Keep in mind you'll need to take this to a professional, as the cloning 
process, as well as the possible re-installation of Windows may need sighted 
assistance.

In any case, we really can't tell you exactly what's wrong until you tell us 
the complete message your getting on the screen when the error comes up.

Here's hoping that it's something more simpler than a failing hard drive.

Scorpio 


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