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Topic: My computer get sometimes tilt after using Gparted

I was partitating my friends harddrive. Then I pressed something from Device or Partition options. There came Cancel Ok screen and them was different places than in Windows. It was night and i pressed Ok and it started do something. I got scared and shutted computer down from button. Then I booted computer and it said that it don't find operation system. Then I installed XP again but it started tilt. I have tried install XP again but it don't help. Today computer have got tilt 7 times in 2,5h.

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Re: My computer get sometimes tilt after using Gparted

It is very confused what happened. I can't know what exactly you did.

Switching the power off is never a way to solve computer problems, not only in partition operations but in normal use too. If you search in this forum, you can find a number of cases of lost partitions after a power failure. That's why we always tell to read carefully the documentation and take backups. Partition operations are potentially dangerous.

About "tilt", I don't understand. Do you mean reboot?

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Re: My computer get sometimes tilt after using Gparted

It gets stuck. Stops and I can´t do nothing. Mouse cursor is not moving and keyboard don´t work.

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Re: My computer get sometimes tilt after using Gparted

Did you do a clean installation or just "repair" the existing installation?

You can test the hardware by using some Linux livecd like Ubuntu, Fedora etc. If it works for 2-3 hours without problem, it seems that you have no hardware problem in the motherboard, ram, graphics.
You can test the windows partition filesystem with the "chkdsk /f" command from the command prompt or "chkdsk /f" from the recovery console (installation cd).
You can test the hard disk with test software by the disk's manufacturer (from its web page).

Sometimes, a broken driver can cause this kind of problems.

(Topic moved from the "Development" section to the live media section).

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