Have you run a thorough Scandisk /all /autofix /nosave /surface in a DOS session to see if you have any bad blocks that Windows is choosing for its swap file? [log in to unmask] gary r. tennesen -----Original Message----- From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Richard Micko Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 5:57 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [PCBUILD] Disk error during Win95 bootup PCBuild: I have been experiencing the following blue screen error when building systems based on the VIA chipset: Disk Write Error unable to write to disk in Drive C: Data or files may be lost. Press any key to continue. ----- PCBUILD mailing list - http://nospin.com Bob Wright:[log in to unmask] - Drew Dunn:[log in to unmask]