Well, for the first time in a while, I am in a panic about my computer. FS and the computer seemed to be running very slowly and I knew taht it wasn't due to my video card (High Tech ATI 9800PRO 128mb with Iceq cooling system) which was overclocked but not causing artifacts. I decided to restart my computer to try to get things smooth again, though after trying 2 or 3 times over the entire day, nothign really changed. I decided to reboot one more time but after the BIOS screen, instead of seeing the WinXP startup, it told me to "strike F1 to retry boot, or strike F2 to enter setup (for bios)". Trying F1 NEVER works, and everything in my BIOS is fine (it detects my HD and the boot sequence is fine). So I pull out my WinXP disk and try to do the recovery console in DOS. I've checked the disk and tried to repair (chkdsk /r), I've fixed boot (fixboot c:). It did work once or twice, but the keyboard did not. I did get an "ntdetect failed" message and tried to remedy it by copying ntdetect.com and ntldr from the CD to c: and now I no longer get the message, but I'm back to square one, "strike F1..." If anyone could PLEASE help me, I have no idea what to do now and any suggestion would be great! Plus, I already miss my FS (haha)! Thanks!-CalEdit: Oh yeah, forgot to mention, I have my HD partitioned into 4 pieces, one being devoted to Windows and system stuff and another to just FS. I ran my O&O defragmenter on the two drives (to speed them up) just before it died. I also got an unmountable_boot_disk blue screen error, but I supposedly fixed it with checkdisk (chkdsk /r)

Have you tried reinstalling XP from your CD instead of using the recovery console? All of your apps will still be there, but this sounds like it MIGHT be a bad HD.