windows 2003 wont boot ?

I got a computer from work and I was told it didnt work ? It has windows server 2003 and its a HP Poweredge SC 420. When I turned it on it started to scandisk and after about 15 min it went to the dell logo screen and now it stays there. It wont allow me to boot in safe mode so any ideas on what to do next would be appreciated. Thanks..

The only things that comes to mind is that either the harddrive are bad, or you need to reinstall Windows.

Are you able to boot the computer with a Windows 2003 install disc?

Also, if you suspect that the harddrive is damaged you can always run SpinRite on it.

I did try to boot with a windows XP cd in it but still nothing..I talked to someone who knew about the computer at work and learned it was a "server" I have no clue what that is about ? What does spinrite do ? Thanks again..

patrick

Click on the link.

SpinRite checks your harddrive for errors and then when it finds bad sectors it marks them as unavailable and also makes these sectors of the harddrive unavailable which makes the harddrive use'able once again, from what I have understood it.

You can also check out this part of their homepage.