Knoppix to the rescue!

[Matthew Carpenter]

I suppose hardware could be a problem causing some instability, which
might have caused the corruption... but I've been doing Winblows support
long enough to know a poop-stuck install pretty well.  Reinstall seemed to
work pretty well... as Windows goes.

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:08:22 -0500
Lee <rathaus at gtcom.net> wrote:

> Back to your client's orginal problem, much as I hate it, it might not
> be winders at fault. I've had this sample problem with at least a dozen 
> computers  I've worked on. Found first cause is the hd going bad,
> rarily, but it happens the ide controller (if the system is ide) going
> out or is out.
> 
>