The old hard drive that "remained in place", even though the OS is not on it,
could very well be the one bringing the system down, even if it's just idling.
Hard drives have RAM on them and when that goes bad you get all sorts of
lockups and memory errors.

HTH,

Jose



"Paul M. Feldman" wrote:

> I am running a 'no name' clone with Win 98, 196 meg of ram, AMD K2 500 mz
> processor.
>
> After the last catastrophic hard drive failure, I reinstalled Win 98 on a
> small hard drive (3 gb) which is the boot drive.  The old hard drive, which
> had 5 partitions - C through G - remained in place.  The data on drives D
> through G is readable by the newly installed boot drive.  That is not a
> problem.
>
> What is happening is that the machine crashes many times a day.  Eve3n when
> not being used, i.e., overnight, the computer often hangs.
>
> Can anyone offer any suggestions?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Paul M. Feldman

               The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering
              Mandrake Linux or Red Hat Linux CD sets along
         with our NOSPIN Power Linux CD...  at a great price!!!
             http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml