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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Keith Markfield
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 9:36 PM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] Computer Randomly Won't Recognize Hard Drive


Basically, my friend's comp. just hung as the hard drive would not
recognize.  I rebooted and had it automatically detect the hard drive but it
seems to have happened again.  Once I had it auto detect, Windows booted
successfully adn I was able to move about normally, but once it was shut
down, chaos re-occured.  Do you suppose that there is a virus or something
along those lines???  Please help!!  Thanks!

Hi,
        Sounds like a Hard Drive starting to go bad.  My father's did a similar
thing (we figured it was simply due to the HD taking longer to spin to speed
than the computer was giving it)  He used it for about a month more, and
then it completely died.  My advice is, back up the data and get a new HD.

Donald Gaither

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