Thanks for the reply, you are probably correct about the drive... It did come up with a bad sector message a while back.... That got fixed so i thought I was in the clear.

The anti-virus was just process of elimination... I just wanted to make sure that nothing bad was rattling around in there ...

Greetings,

I am new to this community and am looking for some help with what has become a recurring problem with my iMac...

I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.3, most up to date version of the OS. I have my hard drive partitioned... The main partition becomes corrupt during normal use... The symptom is ...