Hello all,

I've been trying to post this message, but it won't go. I managed to
post a test message, so I'm gonna post this in several parts. I
appreciate your patience.

My old computer is a 4 year old compaq presario, win98se, 466mhz, 192
ram, 80GB hard drive. The hard drive is a mxtor that I successfully
installed in 2002. For the last few months I had been getting the
dreaded "may have developed bad sectors" meassgae on startup. After
being on for a few weeks straight, one day IE6 refused to open.
Thinking that it was simply time to reboot, that's what I did. And
that's when the trouble started.

"quiet_table" <x96xum@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Then you should run Scandisk with the option to do a "thorough" check. You
could also visit the website of the hard drive maker and run a diagnostic
test from their options.

Mark Mandell