On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:05:22 +0100, Claudio Tagliola wrote:
t looks like a corrupt FAT, which could degenerate itself. If that's
the
case, it's only a miracle the OS itself is still alive. Second guess
would
be a harddisk failure, but that's an even longer stretch.

Claudio,

Well yes it could, but I would have expected booting problems and
BOD's as windows tried to load programs if the FAT or its copy were
mush. Though this could also happen if the BIOS has changed the
method it uses to read the HDrives CHS or LBA info.

Colin
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