The solution to the weird hard drive ? Adware, 35 hits. Just as an experiment, I
scanned with AVAST, SPY BOT and ADAWARE and Adaware found 18 items.
So I installed SUPER ANTISPYWARE. It did a complete scan and found 35 hits
of Adware. They were removed and everything is back to square one. I built the computer about 3 years ago with an ASUS mobo and new memory sticks.
Many thanks for all the suggestions and help, AL SMITH
alan smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Do I have a dandy !! 2weeks ago I took out the "C" drive (160Gb) because of funny things happening. I put in an 80Gb with Win2Kpro, p4, 2.4Gb, 1Gb RAM and all new programs installed ( not from old drive ). When that was running good, I installed another 80Gb drive as a slave, partitioned it into 25 & 55Gb, "F" & "G", formatted both and installed documents, videos and pictures. All went well until last Friday when,
because of antics of IE & microsoft, I switched to FIREFOX as my browser.
In computer management it used to look like
Disk 0 basic, active, on line, healthy & Disk1 basic and it showed the partition
for F & g drives.
Tonight, Sunday, I wanted to put a menu document into "F" and I had trouble. I opened MY COMPUTER and "F" was local disk, no circle showing Gb AND no
"G" drive! So I went into COMPUTER MANAGEMENT and WOW ???
Disk 0 was okay, but look what happened to "F" & "G" !
Disk 1 basic, online, 1333.79GB
Section 1 - 64.00Gb unallocated. Section 2 "F" 84.81Gb, healthy, active
Section 3 (shown in GREEN) 117.71 free space and
Section 4 1067.26Gb unallocated
AND in MY COMPUTER, when I go to open "F", I get a window saying that
"F" is not formatted, do I want to do it now !!!
I have AVAST pro for virus, Spy Bot S&D (which was slow opening ) and
Ad aware. Saturday I shut down AVAST and did a scan with the other 2.
Spy-Bot found 18 entries which I deleted.
Has anyone had this kind of problem ?? Please help. Many thanks to all.
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