XPost: alt.windows-xp   
      
    An Acer laptop, bought when XP was new with XP installed.   
   All updates to date also have been installed.   
     Recently, I've started gettinbg frequent blue-screen, DOS -font   
   notices --- can't read the entire page (it leaves too quickly) but   
   starts with "a problem has been encountered and windows must   
   shut down." Then during reboot,  a "disk must be checked "   
   and the checking is done. Most of the time then one or more   
   mesages of files who's "first allocation unit is not valid". It then   
   "corrects" the problem and finishes the reboot. Twice today this   
   has occured!   
      Any one here know what this means? Is my hard drive telling   
   me something?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)