On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 14:03:54 -0400, Davey Brain wrote:

>Jon,
>I'd lean toward a HD problem. Especially WD drives tend to start 
>clicking when they are going bad.


I forgot to mention that on more than one occasion when the
computer froze upon rebooting the MBR was gone.  This is another
reason that I lean to the HD rather than the MB.  Why would a MB
cause a mbr problem?  For that matter, why would anything (other
than a virus) cause a mbr problem? 

Thanks to Jan's DFSee I was able to restore a MBR to the drive. 
The three times that the mbr was restored all the original data was
found intact.  Only the mbr was effected by the problem.

My first impression was that since the mbr was being trashed that
it may have been a virus but scanning turned up a clean disk. 

Jon



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