Have you changed the hard drive cable?

For a 3G and/or a 2.1, you "might" get away with the older
style, but I if I were you, I would get an 80 wire/40 pin...

                              Rick Glazier

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Harvester" <[log in to unmask]>
> I have an IBM TP760EL with a 3 Gig drive and win98 that is giving me fits. I have used this machine for about 3 years with no
problem except that lately it is coming up with "long file name errors" and other assorted failures at boot up.  What is happening
is that some how characters are being added to the names of directories, never to file names. For example (Windows ' ' ) . In DOS it
will look the same with the <DIR> extension. Once or twice it has added some other character, but it is usually the single quotation
mark.
>    Have run Mcaffe and CA anti virus with no hits.  Have used another drive (2.1 gig) with same results.
>    I think it is noise in the system because when I take it all apart and re-assemble it "seems" better for a while.  But it
always comes back.

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