Here is the short version. Dual boot computer. 98 and 2000
pro. I started having problems in both OS causing the comp
to freeze. It began after I dl a prog to calculate us
savings bonds from the treasury dept. I installed the prog
but then found that I had installed earlier. Apparently I
installed it on top of the other prog. I got my first
freeze when I tried to delete the old short cut from my 98
desk top. All attempts to delete even in dos froze
machine. I did a scan disk and it found errors in my first
5 drives. (i have two hard drives partitioned) I fixed
those errors and then ran chkdsk from my 2000. It reported
a mbr error and I replaced it with a copy. Now I can not
boot to anything but dos and doing a dir on c: just gives
me some *.chk files. That is all it says is on the drive.  
when I run scandisk it reports that the mbr is fried and
that copy 1 should be used to replace copy 2 which is now
active. If I do that it tells me that copy 1 is bad.I am
ready to purchase a cheep new drive and reinstall. My
progs are on other partitions that I can access in dos. I
do have an image of the drive somewhere. It is old but I
have not changed partition files since I made it. I wish
that I could say that it is current but this kind of thing
never happens does it? col (crying out loud) Any
suggestions? links? anything???????