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Terry Smythe
My daughter's 1.6ghz computer, running under WinME, picked up a nasty virus.
Try as I might, NAV 5 would not scan the drive. After 4 hours of
frustration, I was convinced clean reinstall of WinME was called for. In
general principles, I copied all her critical directories and files over to
another backup hard drive before formating it.
Again, under general principles, I attached the back-up hard drive to my
WinXP computer in order to run NAV6 against it. My WinXP computer
properly recognized this drive as FAT32 and NAV6 was sent to it for a full
drive scan. It finally reported clean and green.
Following a clean reinstall of WinME to her main hard drive, I re-attached
the backup hard drive. Hmmmmmnnnnnn, it would not be recognized. So, I
mounted the backup drive in my workbench computer and booted to a WinME
startup floppy. C: could not be seen. Fdisk to my horror reported
that what once was a FAT32 drive is now an NTFS drive, which of course
cannot be read by WinME.
So, back to my WinXP (NTFS) computer for a closer inspection. It now
reports that this 60gig hard drive has 68megs consumed. But I can't see it
or access it. Can it be that NAV6 did the conversion? Or should I
have known better than to attach a FAT32 drive to an NTFS computer?
What utilities are out there that can deal with this strange, ominous turn
of events?
Regards,
Terry Smythe
Winnipeg, Canada
Try as I might, NAV 5 would not scan the drive. After 4 hours of
frustration, I was convinced clean reinstall of WinME was called for. In
general principles, I copied all her critical directories and files over to
another backup hard drive before formating it.
Again, under general principles, I attached the back-up hard drive to my
WinXP computer in order to run NAV6 against it. My WinXP computer
properly recognized this drive as FAT32 and NAV6 was sent to it for a full
drive scan. It finally reported clean and green.
Following a clean reinstall of WinME to her main hard drive, I re-attached
the backup hard drive. Hmmmmmnnnnnn, it would not be recognized. So, I
mounted the backup drive in my workbench computer and booted to a WinME
startup floppy. C: could not be seen. Fdisk to my horror reported
that what once was a FAT32 drive is now an NTFS drive, which of course
cannot be read by WinME.
So, back to my WinXP (NTFS) computer for a closer inspection. It now
reports that this 60gig hard drive has 68megs consumed. But I can't see it
or access it. Can it be that NAV6 did the conversion? Or should I
have known better than to attach a FAT32 drive to an NTFS computer?
What utilities are out there that can deal with this strange, ominous turn
of events?
Regards,
Terry Smythe
Winnipeg, Canada