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Disk failure or virus maybe, but not OS. For future reference, it’s a good idea to keep at least two disk partitions on your computer. Make a dedicated partition for Windows and your Programs and keep all your personal files on another partition. Your computer will treat this partition like it was a separate hard drive. Then when Windows gets hosed you can reformat this partition, reinstall windows and all your pictures, music and movies are still intact on your other partion(s). For windows 2000, a 5-gigabyte partition is sufficient, for Windows XP you’ll want about 10 gigs. Then just let the rest be for your media/games. If you didn’t do this, you can still save your files. Chances are you could probably use more hard drive space. Good excuse to buy a 2nd one. Hard drives are dirt-cheap now anyways. Install it as your primary, (unhook your old one temporarily so you don’t erase it by mistake). Install windows on new drive (2 partitions of course), re-hook up new hard drive, and presto, your old files on your old drive are accessible. I’d recommend, copying over the files and program preferences from the old drive to the new drive and then reformat the old drive and use it as extra space. It could be a car video drive or something. Yeah, I know you already lost everything, but now you know.
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