Hello Paul,

Friday, April 19, 2002, 2:59:45 PM, you wrote:

PMF> I am running a 'no name' clone with Win 98, 196 meg of ram, AMD K2 500 mz
PMF> processor.

PMF> After the last catastrophic hard drive failure, I reinstalled Win 98 on a
PMF> small hard drive (3 gb) which is the boot drive.  The old hard drive, which
PMF> had 5 partitions - C through G - remained in place.  The data on drives D
PMF> through G is readable by the newly installed boot drive.  That is not a
PMF> problem.

PMF> What is happening is that the machine crashes many times a day.  Eve3n when
PMF> not being used, i.e., overnight, the computer often hangs.

PMF> Can anyone offer any suggestions?

PMF> Thank you.

PMF> Paul M. Feldman

It seems that your old HDD have some problem (hardware or software). So try to
use your PC without this device about several days. If PC would be working well
then consider old HDD in more details.



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