Hiya! Hate to be a pain, but this is something I can't fix.
My pooter decided to go kapootsky on me the other day - crashing, Windows booting up one time, crashing, then not booting a few times, then coming up again... Seems to be no real rhyme nor reason. Reinstalled Windows, was great till I'd just gotten everything else reinstalled.... and then off it went again. It'd keep telling me that certain system files were missing, and then more... Pottered around in MSDos a bit to see if I could see anything blatant, and everything was on-and-off in gibberish instead of the usual filenames.
Now, figuring I had a virus, I've since formatted, and had the same problem, and tried running a full system scan with Nortons(which finished just before the whole thing went dead last time), and came up with nothing. I've tried installing Windows on my other physical drive, and while I don't seem to be getting the gobbledygook, it's still crashing like a wet llama.
Now, I figure if I can get it to net access before it dies again, I'll check out all the online scans mentioned elsewhere, and my only other alternative is to format both drives (yes, I know formatting one and not the other seems kinda silly, but one of my cdroms is a bit touchy, and the other is scsi, which means installing Windows from cd is almost impossible). My only other thought is to format, then stick my drive into someone else's computer and stick the files on it, and hope that it doesn't infect them too (and given that I don't know any techies at the moment, I don't think anyone else would be sutiably protected).
So, yeah, although I feel pretty guilty just jumping on here and saying "Hey! Help me!" - that's exactly what I'm gonna do.
Hey, help me!
I'm guessin' it's some sort of virus thing going (even though the initial hard drive thing seems a bit like failure), but I haven't had much experience with anything Nortons (or ZA, spyware proggies, and whatever else) couldn't ditch.
So, yeah... ta!
My pooter decided to go kapootsky on me the other day - crashing, Windows booting up one time, crashing, then not booting a few times, then coming up again... Seems to be no real rhyme nor reason. Reinstalled Windows, was great till I'd just gotten everything else reinstalled.... and then off it went again. It'd keep telling me that certain system files were missing, and then more... Pottered around in MSDos a bit to see if I could see anything blatant, and everything was on-and-off in gibberish instead of the usual filenames.
Now, figuring I had a virus, I've since formatted, and had the same problem, and tried running a full system scan with Nortons(which finished just before the whole thing went dead last time), and came up with nothing. I've tried installing Windows on my other physical drive, and while I don't seem to be getting the gobbledygook, it's still crashing like a wet llama.
Now, I figure if I can get it to net access before it dies again, I'll check out all the online scans mentioned elsewhere, and my only other alternative is to format both drives (yes, I know formatting one and not the other seems kinda silly, but one of my cdroms is a bit touchy, and the other is scsi, which means installing Windows from cd is almost impossible). My only other thought is to format, then stick my drive into someone else's computer and stick the files on it, and hope that it doesn't infect them too (and given that I don't know any techies at the moment, I don't think anyone else would be sutiably protected).
So, yeah, although I feel pretty guilty just jumping on here and saying "Hey! Help me!" - that's exactly what I'm gonna do.
Hey, help me! I'm guessin' it's some sort of virus thing going (even though the initial hard drive thing seems a bit like failure), but I haven't had much experience with anything Nortons (or ZA, spyware proggies, and whatever else) couldn't ditch.
So, yeah... ta!
