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To: E who wrote (30024)	11/6/2002 12:08:43 PM
From: Lost1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

E, I suspect it's your screensaver

To: E who wrote (30024)	11/6/2002 1:27:36 PM
From: Fargonaut	Respond to of 110653

I had a machine with that problem so I put scandisk.exe on a boot floppy and ran it in DOS. It was slow but it did a good job. F

To: E who wrote (30024)	11/6/2002 5:11:44 PM
From: thecow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110653

E Try booting into safe mode by restarting your computer and tapping the F5 key several times as soon as you hear the beeps (called the POST or power on self test) your computer makes when starting up. Use your up/down keyboard arrows to highlight "Safe Mode" and then hit the "enter" key. This will load you into safe mode and possibly stop whatever is writing to disk from loading at all. Run scandisk from safe mode and see if it finishes.