IT related problem

[TAS]

ok... let me give you a bit of history first.... sorry guys....

I havent used by PC in years... (my home one that is) I have always used my mates coz he has BroadBand:) but over the weekend I thought that I would power her up and see how she is....

no problems at all.... Running really slow.. so I thought I would use ScanDisk....
After about 10 mins... it returns an error message saying the scandisk couldnt do it because my hard drive was being written to. (I know this, so b4 I closed all programs that would stop this from happening)
so im thinking maybe the system has a virus on it.... download the lastest copy of Norton (from mates computer) and everything seems in order on his....(its a single file which is an .exe)
Put the CD in my drive and when i browse the CD, it shows multiply copies of the file and the icon is the icon when windows cant find a file to associate it with (blank window?) when i double click on it, an error message comes up Cannot find file... it cant be a faulty CD because it works on 2 other PC's

I checked the CDROM to make sure its working and it dont... this happens to alot of my cd's i put in... but a few of them it reads fine?????

I have checked within the system folder and it says that my C and D drive are using MSDOS compatability....

but surely this wouldnt not stop the CD from functioning like that?

I am lost.... I cant even download a virus checker to check the system to see if their is a problem... because my CD drive wont let me read CD's.

i have got internet access but that dont work either... another long story... but I am more worried about the above.

Anyone had this problem or a similar one?

any info much appreicated. Sorry about the long post.

Cheers,

Tim

[Vez]

"I have checked within the system folder and it says that my C and D drive are using MSDOS compatability...."

Thats the problem for the speed, but I cant remember for the life of me how to solve it! :(

So long since I used mickey softs "home" o/s's :rolleyes:

[mattpayne]

not used the pc for years... :) sounds like a good excuse to format and rebuild... :D should solve all your pains!!:thumbs:

[marty_t3]

yup... i'd just format it and start fresh.... if you can, get it hooked up to your mates broadband connection and just download all the latest drivers/software.

[marty_t3]

oh.... and running EMM386 (or similar memory managers) in your congif.sys on 95/98 will cause MSDOS File Compatibility to show up.

[Sabrex]

Rebuild os is always the last resort.

Theres many reasons why scandisk will not run through it s process , i bet it runs fine in safe mode.

Tap F8 on boot up and select safe mode then run scandisk.

Alot of people with issues with software and alot of the time the main question is "are you running Norton anti Virus" and 80% are. I bet you go safe mode and remove the prog it all works fine. I big nasty prog is call System works. If youve installed that get it off. You can always re-install it.

Before you rebuild an os always check if its ok in safe mode.

Is it XP , ME , 98 ?

remember its nealy always the last thing you did prior to the problem occuring that probrably caused it.

Think its a virus ? pop to www.antivirus.com and do a free homechecker.

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

click on the scan without registering.

TRy going to device manager and pulling out the cdrom drives and have windows refind em on a restart. [right click my computer select properties , select Hardware / Device manager >> select cdrom + sign next to it - select the drive and press delete key - Yes to remove hardware]

Loads of things you can do m8

sab

[Nismo_Freak]

IT no fun for Mongo :sleep: