I had the identical problem recently and it turned out to be a bad power
supply.  (I had upgraded just about everything else in this 1991 computer
before I finally isolated the problem!)

> I have a PII-300 using Win98 and a 6.4 gig Western Digital HD. Everything
>has been running fine until last night when I tried to use the computer
>after it had been idle for a few hours. Everything was locked up so I hit
>reset. When Windows tried to run scandisk after the reset it would go to a
>certain point of the surface scan and stop with a clanking noise coming from
>the HD. If I hit reset again and cancel scandisk,  it boots normally but
>does this every time I try to run scandisk.  Any ideas? Is my HD dying?  The
>HD is only about 6 months old but I did swap it from another computer to
>this one and did a complete reformat, but it had been acting fine for the
>couple of weeks since.  Any help would be very much appreciated.

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