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And if possible, regularly take backups with the most important data.
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And if possible, regularly take backups with the most important data.

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What OS will you be running? windows98 = FAT32<br />
With XP you have the choice
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What OS will you be running? windows98 = FAT32
With XP you have the choice

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You hard drive could be failing. You might want to download the hard drive manufacturers hard rive utility and run a diagnostics against the drive.
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You hard drive could be failing. You might want to download the hard drive manufacturers hard rive utility and run a diagnostics against the drive.

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Is there a virus that can cause files do disappear from a directory. It seems on my old drive some files would just get bad or disappear completely. Many times my system would perform a disk scan at bootup when I never asked for it. When it runs it finds pieces of files and attemts to restore those sections. ? Is it a virus or an NTFS problem?<br />
BTW in formating a drive should I create my boot partition in FAT32 or NFTS.
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Is there a virus that can cause files do disappear from a directory. It seems on my old drive some files would just get bad or disappear completely. Many times my system would perform a disk scan at bootup when I never asked for it. When it runs it finds pieces of files and attemts to restore those sections. ? Is it a virus or an NTFS problem?
BTW in formating a drive should I create my boot partition in FAT32 or NFTS.

Virus and NFTS vs FAT32

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