Hey Michael. 

Sounds like your hard drive might be failing. I'd recommend making a boot disk (floppy, CD) and then putting a hard drive diagnostic utility on the disk. If you know the manufacturer of your hard drive, you should be able to get the diagnostic program from their website.

Brian

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