Did you try formating the drive and re-installing windows. Don Don's Electronics Barry Thompson wrote: > Hi All: I did a scandisk on this drive which took 8 hours and there no was > problems or bad sectors reported.The drive is a Maxtor and is locking up > with blue screens (the progam is still busy) I tried to run win98 as a > repair but had to abort because it couldn't find some files.Ran Registry > Mech. and sys.file checker and every thing ok. Ran Powermax.from their boot > disk and on the full scan test it locks up.Any opinions? I think it must be > the drive.Thanks Barry > barrystv@xxxxxxx > Barrys TV > 613 224 3406 > Ottawa.Canada. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Lost Password: > http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". > Email Archives: > //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/