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Drive Error!!!
I have win98 when i reboot my system sometime i see drive name c:, D: and E: which is right but sometime All of my files from drive D: move to E: and D: became 0 bytes, and if i reboot 3 -4 times it's works fine,
Is my hard drive affected by any virus????
Is my hard drive affected by any virus????
Patricia Siu-Lai Ho
bcp, what is your drive C, D, E harddisk,zip drive or cdrom or dvdrom etc... pslh
sounds like a corrupt master boot record. I'm guessing your drive is partitioned? If so, try moving all your files off D to C, which doesn't sound corrupt, or even better, if possible, move the files to another hard drive. Then perform FDISK on the D partition/drive to possibly repair it's identity. If you have two drives, best thing to do is to move everything off the D and C drive to another hard drive and do FDISK /MBR to target just the master boot record. Moving the files will ensure you don't lose data.
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kennetx, you have been asked repeatedly not to post questions as answers. You have been reminded repeatedly as to the protocol that the techs here observe as to blocking a questioners question with troubleshooting questions. You haven't posted a solution, you have posted a question as an answer, which effectively removes this problem as being answered. If you can't observe the protocol, find another site to play at.
BCP, kindly reject the proposed answer and reopen the question so that other techs can assist you.
Dennis
BCP, kindly reject the proposed answer and reopen the question so that other techs can assist you.
Dennis
BCP, what are you using for an antivirus?
Have you noticed any other odd problems with your system?
For files to mysteriously move from one drive to another should not be FAT related, as each drive has its own File Allocation Table.
Have you noticed any other odd problems with your system?
For files to mysteriously move from one drive to another should not be FAT related, as each drive has its own File Allocation Table.
dennis, but wouldn't a corrupt master boot record cause drives to shift?
It shouldn't nomadic. Here's the scenario, if the MBR were corrupt, it wouldn't effect the FAT. If the system were' FAT 16, and the MBR and the FAT were corrupt, the system wouldn't boot. On the other hand, if it were FAT 32, there would be two file allocation tables and one could be corrupted along with the MBR, however that too would throw an error. I'd be willing to make a small wager that there is a virus on the system.
I hear ya, dew... :-)