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Great group here. Glad I found ya'll. I'm off on the quest for a MBR boot sector repair method. Great information. Many thanks.

Thanks for the replys, bygeek Looks that way because when I run the Acronis MBR cleaner boot disk and choose repair the problem goes away, for a day. The problem recurs in a day or 2. It got both my main and backup (Ghosted) HDs. Really don't know. Good question. rvnguy I run Trend as my...

It appears I picked up a boot sector virus in my XP install. Seems like a boot sector virus is one tough nut to crack. Any ideas? Thanks

Thanks guys. This response is too good to be true. I think I found it. I had a hard drive benchmarker loaded for a bit called IOMeter. I ran it and it just sat there in a "Preparing hard drive" mode for several hours. Actually I forgot about it, went out for a while and when I came back. It...

Roger that. Great little forum ya'll got here. Thanks again

Dos got it! Ya. There was a single, gigantic 135 gig file in the root directory that dos finally displayed. "Del c:/ bla bla . . ." Still not sure where it came from but it's gone now. I'm saved. Many thanks for the tip.

Yep, I hear you. So far, I'm not seeing any other way either. That would be the "nuclear option." I'm still looking at some more tactical options. Acronis has a disk director program that claims to be able to help. Anyone know of other good disk management programs?

Ran into a problem. The data on my Maxtor 250 gig PATA HD has doubled in size. It has been around 100 gig for a while now. I must have done something . . . because I now have 200 gig of data on board. It seems to have happened as a single event. This would be great if it was some cool stuff, but...