Sounds like a bad hard drive, Kelli. I would first look in Control
Panel/Administrative Tools/Event Viewer where you can see (in the left pane)
listings for Application and System. If you'll tap Application first, it
will reveal yellow exclamation points and possibly red circles with white
X's in them. Those are error messages which may point out the problem. Do
the same on System, and write down the results.

Then, I would immediately contact Toshiba and see what their techs say
regarding those error messages. They may want you to run some other
diagnostics on the machine to further pinpoint the issue, too.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


"kr2060" <kr2060@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BF9BF0AE-6DE7-469E-B304-6D3DE856DCA8@microsoft.com...
> I'm running Windows XP Tablet PC Edition on a Toshiba M205.
>
> I kept getting the blue screen and thought the problem was this tabtip.exe
> memory leak that seems to be annoying everyone, not just me. So I ran the
> batch file and all seemed to be going reasonably well until the hard drive
> started making a terrible whirring noise (it has whirred in the past but
> never like this) and then everything stops and eventually freezes.
>
> When I turn it off, let it sit for a while and then restart I send an
> error
> message to Microsoft and the online crash analysis website pops up and
> tells
> me:
> "Windows was temporarily unable to read your hard disk drive. This problem
> is general in nature and unfortunately we are unable to determine the
> specific cause of the read error from the error report. In most cases this
> problem is temporary and can be ignored; however, if the problem is
> occurring
> repeatedly we recommend you follow the additional troubleshooting steps in
> this article."
>
> It mentions that the problem can be caused by media from a remote location
> to the hard drive, by a drive lag caused by filter drivers and virus
> scanners
> etc. I am running McAfee and I am also dealing with a lot of foreign
> language fonts and moving them from file to file. The last time this
> happened (and I discovered the memory leak) I was working on a big
> project
> (Microsoft Word, Adobe and IE running) and had lots of windows open, the
> same
> happened this time. But once it happens I can't just shut the system down
> and restart and everything is happy, instead the computer will only run
> for
> anywhere from 2 hours to 30 minutes before the screen comes back
> regardless
> of the number of programs I'm running or windows I have open. In fact
> this
> morning I was only running Word and it died after only 35 minutes.
>
> Does anyone have any idea why this is happening to my new little tablet?
> is
> my hard drive corrupt or is there something wrong with my version of
> windows?
> is this connected in any way to the memory leak? I just want to be able
> to
> work on my dissertation for longer than an hour at a time.
>
> any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Kelli
>
>