Yes, that was one of the first things I thought of, and came up with nothing
at all.
This is when I went on to format and reload windows (more than once), which
then led me to delete the partition and repartition it and then reformat it
once more.
I don't want to condemn the hard drive if I don't have to.
I may have got this wrong, but windows did mention once before that there
was a 'drive overlay?' or something like that, but it was a one off message,
and I didn't have time to make a note of the full error message.
It continuously mentions that it cannot determine the free space, so I fix
it with the boot disk, and then, as soon as I try toinstall anything such as
an antivirus, the free space is wrong again, and so I'm back to square one.
I'm getting nowhere fast with it.
Anymore suggestions anyone?
Michele Sayer


On 6 Jul 2003, at 1:06, Michele wrote:

> I've tried just about everything. It was fine up until a couple of weeks
> ago, but for some reason, although it was starting up, my antivirus was
> disabled everytime on start up even though I had constantly set it to
> automatic.

  Several recent viruses have included code to disable antivirus products on
infected machines.  Have you tried a virus scan from a boot floppy?

David Gillett

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