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daviddschool
Flightless Bird
Fun? I guess I like the challenge, but I don't know if I would use
the term 'fun'. lol
Well, I am going to try the Winlive CD once more then I am going to
take out the HD and format a new one I bought - and then recover the
backup from a month ago.
I guess my main concern is and STILL WILL BE if I have a virus on the
system drives or not. That is why I was really hoping to get this
BitDefender going (and why for the life of me it seems to work for
other but not me, I don't know!).
Since I have to format the drive with this computer, there is a chance
that there might be a virus on my slave drive (I have run a virus
check on it, but I really need a Virus check that isn't tainted like
from a CD) OR my Dual boot (with Win 7) on it (I have three drives in
this system). Both of which could have been hit with the virus/
malware during this whole routine.
So that is it in a nutshell, virus worry, but I am not worried about
reinstalling. That is the easy part. Getting a Virus checker to work
from a CD is slightly worriesome because it doesn't work - making me
think it has something to do with my DVD rom or my MOBO.
AND I am a bit baffled why I can boot in Safe Mode but not in normal
mode - I only once got to the desktop, the rest of the time, it gets
close but reboots and does a memory dump or something. Maybe my mobo
or something doesn't like something with WinXP.
the term 'fun'. lol
Well, I am going to try the Winlive CD once more then I am going to
take out the HD and format a new one I bought - and then recover the
backup from a month ago.
I guess my main concern is and STILL WILL BE if I have a virus on the
system drives or not. That is why I was really hoping to get this
BitDefender going (and why for the life of me it seems to work for
other but not me, I don't know!).
Since I have to format the drive with this computer, there is a chance
that there might be a virus on my slave drive (I have run a virus
check on it, but I really need a Virus check that isn't tainted like
from a CD) OR my Dual boot (with Win 7) on it (I have three drives in
this system). Both of which could have been hit with the virus/
malware during this whole routine.
So that is it in a nutshell, virus worry, but I am not worried about
reinstalling. That is the easy part. Getting a Virus checker to work
from a CD is slightly worriesome because it doesn't work - making me
think it has something to do with my DVD rom or my MOBO.
AND I am a bit baffled why I can boot in Safe Mode but not in normal
mode - I only once got to the desktop, the rest of the time, it gets
close but reboots and does a memory dump or something. Maybe my mobo
or something doesn't like something with WinXP.