Linux Live CDs

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The computer used to boot up and work, but after a few minutes it would crash and give the blue screen of death. I thought maybe the OS had become corrupted so I deleted the current partition and created a new one so that I could reinstall Windows. However it crashed several times during the OS setup and never finished installing.

I tried using a Linux Live CD (which loads entirely into ram) and it ran fine for hours, it never crashed. I finally tried installing Linux onto the harddrive but it failed as well, now the partition editor in Linux doesn’t even recognize the HD device.

Does this situation sound like a HD failure? A while back I thought it could possibly be the power-supply but now I’m leaning towards the HD. The computer is an EMachine Desktop, bought in 2005.

Windows keeps displaying the stop error “PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED” when booting. Ran chkdsk several times with no luck. While using a Linux live CD, Linux can not mount the drive. Has my hard drive definitely gone bad?

Alright, I’m new to Linux (in fact, I’ve never really used) and I just wanted to test out Linux Mint 6 this morning. I made the live boot CD. I popped it in, and everything seemed to be running fine. I got to the start up screen (where it ask you if you want to start Linux normally, or in safe mode). I told it to start normally, the screen went black, it gave me a bunch of mombo jombo with a lot of dots afterwards(honestly, I wasn’t paying much attention), it said ready, and then some error code came up that said not responding. I tried it over several times. I even loaded it on to a partition and tried to boot it off that and it didn’t work. i downloaded it again and made another boot CD, and still got the same results.
Any genius out there who has a what’s up?
And yes, I am a Noob so treat me like your grandmother.
THX