I have seen all kinds of read errors with the faster CD-ROM drives, but
never any HDD problems caused by vibration. This, of course, doesn't mean
that it can't happen. Have your dealer replace the CD-ROM with something
more standard (read: slower), like a 8x drive (can you even buy these
anymore?).

Fix up the errors with Norton Disk Doctor or equivalent. If your problems
continue, you will at least have ruled out the CD-ROM drive as the cause.

--------------------------------
Dan Chapman
Network Analyst, MS Certified Systems Engineer
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jean M Bourvic <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 4:49 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] hard drive failure


>To Mike and others:
>
>My 2 cents.  I just picked up a computer for my daughter.   Cyrix Pr200
with
>a
>2.1 GHd and a Smart 100x CDROM.  When I started to load some software using
>the
>CD Rom (Corel WPerfect) I started getting numerous crashes and blue screen
>errors "cannot write to Drive C".  When I recovered from that, I found
using
>Explorer that the directory was trashed.  There were folder/file names that