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socalsurf · 06-20-2002, 07:33 PM

Then the Hard Drive freezes and causes me to re-boot???

I have an older AMD K6-2 350mhz (its a HP boxed system) running 98 first edition. I plan to upgrade soon (as evident by earlier posts). The system has a small 4 gig HD and 96 Mb of memory.

The problem is that I cant: run scandisk, defrag, run a surface test, use my virus can ect. Now I did run scandisk in dos and also was able to defrag when I disabled the screensaver and stopped all the windows apts except explorer. But still, I want to figure out why my HD hangs up. Whenever I try to do one of the above functions I hear a click and then the system is frozen????

You guys have been a huge help so far, I would appreciate any help here

thanks

PS - I accidentally posted this in the general discussion but im learning

06-20-2002, 07:33 PM	#1 (permalink)
socalsurf Registered User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: So Cal Posts: 61	See today's most popular deals at » Hard Drive Feezes on defrag/virus scan/surface test and more Then the Hard Drive freezes and causes me to re-boot??? I have an older AMD K6-2 350mhz (its a HP boxed system) running 98 first edition. I plan to upgrade soon (as evident by earlier posts). The system has a small 4 gig HD and 96 Mb of memory. The problem is that I cant: run scandisk, defrag, run a surface test, use my virus can ect. Now I did run scandisk in dos and also was able to defrag when I disabled the screensaver and stopped all the windows apts except explorer. But still, I want to figure out why my HD hangs up. Whenever I try to do one of the above functions I hear a click and then the system is frozen???? You guys have been a huge help so far, I would appreciate any help here thanks PS - I accidentally posted this in the general discussion but im learning