In a message dated 6/29/2002 8:59:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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<< Fellow Listers,

 I have a PII 450 256ram 16.8 gig HD running Win98se.  HD properties say I
 have 3 gigs empty on drive.  I ran Norton Utilities Speed Disk and got an
 error message saying it couldn't write to drive C: and then ran Norton disk
 doctor.  Disk doctor did its stuff, including scandisk, and reported no
 errors.  I run Windows scandisk and find no errors.  But when I do Windows
 defrag, it stops and I get BSOD of Error Writing to C drive, data or files
 may be lost.

 I have GoBack and resorted to an earlier boot which seemed to correct the
 problem.  Ran defrag again and now I'm getting the same BSOD over and over
 again almost back to back.  I'll hit the space key each time, for about 6-10
 times, and then it seems to go back to normal for a while.

 Does it sound like maybe a write head (?) on the HD may be bad?  Virus?  I
 have newly update/scanned NAV 2002.  Any other ideas? Suggestions on getting
 rid of the BSOD? >>

I'm agreeing with your responses, that the hard drive isn't long for this
world.  Thanks Bill for you suggestion on reaching the file limit.  That
hadn't occurred to me.  The count was 48 directories and 35 files just for
info.  So now on to cloning the drive.

Thanks for the great input!
Kevin Nowicki

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