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Brendhan Horne <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 1 May 2000 15:44:23 -0700
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> Lately, when opening programs, my computer takes up to a minute or two at
> times (not always) to open an additional program. The hard drive light
> lights up and the mouse freezes until the program opens. Sometimes this
> happens when I am trying to save a program and others when I am just opening
> a new one. Twice I got the following message:
>
>
>                 Disk Write Error
>
>     Unable to write to disk in drive C:
>     data or files may be lost
>     press any key to continue,
>
Okay I had this one happen to me my problem was the bios hdd auto detect had listed it as lba instead of the normal type. You may have to go into your bios and redo your hdd auto detect and generally accept the recommended default. I think this might help.



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