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Hard error, rebooting in 60 seconds

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PCHPlayer

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Anyone ever seen this message before? My disk seemed to be acting funny (too slow) so I immediately tried to backup to my second hard drive. I was able to back up my important data I keep on the D partition (I do nightly backups as well), but when I tried to backup my C drive I got this error. It was accompanied by some really strange errors from windows explorer.
I downloaded the IBM hard drive tester and it did not find any errors.
BTW. The drive was slow because XP change the mode from DMA to PIO. It does this if it detects a certain number of errors when accessing the drive.
It seems that my not-so-reliable IBM 60GXP might be slowly dieing. Any thoughts?
 
I believe that is the virus that has been going around. Rebooting in 60 seconds makes me think that is what it is.
 
No it is not the virus. I have a fire wall and NAV. I was copying a file and a dialog came up that said: "Hard Error. Windows will shut down in XX seconds". The XX is counting down until it hit zero then the system rebooted. There was another error that I cannot recall, but it was something like "File does not exist ...". Which is strange because I was only copying files, how could a file not exist.
It only happened once, so that eliminates the virus.
I am going to try a complete copy of the C drive again tonight to see if I can reproduce the error.
 
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