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Hi all,

I was hoping some Windows guru could helps me.

I am having a lot of problems with my hard drive hanging
in Windows 3.1. I am not sure if the problem is getting
more frequent or not, but it's a big problem. The last
few times I've used Windows, the hard drive would hang
when I opened Windows. Here's the scoop:

1. typed "WIN /3" or "WIN"

2. Windows begins opening

3. Get wallpaper up on screen

4. Opening .WAV plays.

5. Drive hangs. Mouse still moves, but is hourglass. The
   LED that shows the drive is reading stays on constantly.
   System doesn't recover. Cold boot necessary.

Last night I had to open Windows *5* times to get it to open
successfully. Even then, an hour into working on a MIDI
file, it froze again. Same thing - as 5 above.

I thought perhaps SMARTDRV was the culprit, and after the
4th failure, I REM'd it from the autoexec.bat. Windows
opened, but it hung up an hour later.

I'm running HIMEM, EMM386, and SMARTDRV. No parameters
on the latter two.

I have tried three different virus programs - one is brand
new - and none show a virus. I don't think that's the cause.

Perhaps I need to reinstall Windows. Maybe my hard drive is
going bad. Maybe I should reinstall the whole machine. I
DON'T KNOW!

Any clues, tips, pointers, incantations, rituals, etc. would
be appreciated.


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