Frank,

It is not a Norton problem.  I have had the same thing happen with
scandisk -- except that scandisk went ahead and set the erroneous date
with no warning messages.


Jim Meagher
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----- Original Message -----
From: Frank Suszka <[log in to unmask]>

> Dear Group:
> I recently experienced a problem with my system and I would like to
> share it with you.
>
> While I was on the net, my system crashed and I did a manual boot.
> "Norton Disk Doctor proceeded to indicate there were errors in the dates
> and time stamps. I said OK, fix them. After about 30 seconds of fixing
> with more to go, a red flag popped up and I cringed. I stopped the fix
> and that's when my problems began. Almost everything on the system had a
> 1980 date and midnight time. To make the story short, I lost every bit
> of information on both of my drives. sigh Loves labor lost.
>
> I would like to know, if possible, why the date and time changed and is
> there something I can do next time to prevent the change? I also want to
> share this so this won't happen to someone else. My BIOS information is:

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