I'm not sure if i should be posting this in this forum..but hopefully someone can help me out.

I wired in front panel buttons (Power, restart, an IDE LED, and a Power LED). I took these front panel buttons and LEDs from an old computer. Needless to say, it didn't work out the way i planned. I had to re-wire it to work with my computer. During this process, i restarted, shutdown, cut power to my computer quite a few times.

Thinking back i realised i should have at least unplugged the harddrive during all this.

Now when i start the computer, it goes all the way to the windows XP loading screen, then halfway through it restarts, and this is an endless process. I'm beginning to think the harddrive has crashed. Can anyone help me confirm this?

I'd rather not re-format the computer, unless i absolutly have to, as i have songs on the computer i'd like to save.

Thanks in advanced,
Rocky