After running a Win95/col2.2 dual boot for 2.5 years the col2 suddenly shutdown down one night in the middle of an internet session. I mean the screen just went dark. The bootup was .located in the hda mbr. On reboot, boot magic failed with the error message that the linux partition couldn't be found. Took the opportunity to upgrade to e2.4. After two weeks it failed to bootup. Error message said something was cycling too fast and it would have to shut down for five minutes. Never booted up. Upgraded to w3.1. Lasted about three days before did the same thing. Boot and rescue disks failed to boot system. Shifted to Mandrake 7.0. After a month failed to boot. Error message said reading 1 bit in swap sync. Moved to Mandrake 8.0, 8.1 same results. The system is a Mainboard running a 200mmx Pentium with 64Meg memory and a Quantum 4 gig big foot hd. Only thing I can think of for this is that the hd may be going bad and files are getting corrupted in bad sectors. Any opinions?
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