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You ran scandisk from a 98 startup disk ,so you must have XP on a FAT32 partition. Otherwise it never would have worked cause scandisk for 98 will not work on an NTFS patition. You should refomat with a 98 startup disk then reinstall XP but make sure you let setup convert the file system to NTFS. Then see how everything goes. Your FAT32 partition might be corrupted, bad sectors could be croping up. Maybe the hard drive is going bad but it's suttle. Did you do a surface scan with scandisk? Windows scandisk does not always pick up everything. I had a 42GB IBM DeskStar that was going bad and it was only 8 months old, was doing all kinds of shit to my OS. Also check the ribbon cables connected to your drives for possible probs. Switch them out with other ones.