I had similar error when I mounted my hard drive upside down(circit board
up).
After I had turned it right side up everthing worked fine.  And I'm still
using it to this
day.

--Patrick Black

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Subject: [PCBUILD] bad hard drive ???


Using Soyo SY-5EMA+ V1.0
AMD K6-2 450
128 meg PC-100
Samsung 4.3

Lately, when opening programs, my computer takes up to a minute or two at
times (not always) to open an additional program. The hard drive light
lights up and the mouse freezes until the program opens. Sometimes this
happens when I am trying to save a program and others when I am just opening
a new one. Twice I got the following message:


                Disk Write Error

    Unable to write to disk in drive C:
    data or files may be lost
    press any key to continue,

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