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Best advice I can give you is to download the Hard Disk Utility from the manufactures web site that makes your HDD. It will scan the HDD and detect a physical problem. Also, does it give you a choice to fix the problem or tell you what the problem is?
Later,
KTTD
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Response Number 3
Name: Ger Date: August 3, 2002 at 18:06:31 Pacific
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You need to schedule chkdsk to run after a reboot in order for it to fix the errors. Press the Start button, click Run, then type chkdsk /f then hit enter. When it asks if you want chkdsk to run at the next boot, answer y and hit enter. Then restart the computer.
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