Last time I saw something like that, it also had random freezes
and lots of blue screens --- eventually...
The hard drive went totally "bad" just as I arrived to look at it.

Back at "my house" the HD was almost entirely inaccessable.

At the very least, figure out what you want off that HD and
backup or "get off" that stuff...

                                         Rick Glazier

----- Original Message -----
From: "April Peters"
>I am running Windows 98 on a HP Pavilion 6642F.  We have not been able to boot the computer for 2 weeks.  Last night I turned it on
>and got the operating sytem not found message, turned it off and back on.. it booted. I know that if I turn it off again- it might
>not boot next time.



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