Fat 32 issue

[MiguelAlonso]

Hi guys

I been having problems with my pc over the past 6 months, it started with my pc randomly switching itself off and then i when i tried to boot it back up it would upto the windows running bar then stop and would not load to my desktop i had and still do have to keep booting it up maybe 5 times till it loads fully till my desktop, lately when i turn it on again it will attempt to load then the pc will run a disk scan reporting
FAT 32
VOLUME SERIAL NUMBER 467F - 6B53
A friend of mine who attempts to tell me he is a wiz took my pc away a while back and installed a copied version of XP in which i have all these problems and more when he returned it the monitor settings arnt correct and can not get them back to how they were pages lean all over the place and im sure this copy of xp has something to do with it?

Can anybody help with the isssue's i am having?

Thanks in advance

[nburg01]

If your PC started to switch itself off then this is definitely a hardware fault, I'd say you have a flakey PSU and need to replace it.

When Windows keeps switching off like this without doing a proper shutdown it will eventually cause file corruption and even corruption to the disk's partition table, which is probably why Windows now keeps running disk checks.

So my advice is to replace your PSU, then backup what data you can and then wipe the hard disk and re-install Windows from scratch. This way you know it's a clean install with no corruption.

Also, when you re-install make sure you select NTFS, this is far more robust than FAT32.