First post, by seanneko
I have a Toshiba Satellite 1800 which is having an issue with the hard drive. It's a Pentium 3 running Windows 98, and a 60gb FAT32 drive.
It was all running fine with no issues, until a few days ago when Windows threw up all sorts of random errors, and upon trying to reboot it hung before "starting windows 98" came up.
I formatted and reinstalled Windows which went fine, but after a couple of hours the same sort of thing happened again.
I've done the following things:
- reflash BIOS
- replace hard drive
- run memtest with no errors
- reinstall Windows several times
It seems like the file system gradually corrupts itself over time. Every test (hard drive surface scan, memtest, etc) pass with no errors.
Has anyone had something like this happen before? Could it be a failing hard drive controller or something?