Path not found - for everything!

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Rob

Hey Everyone,

I ran Symantec Anti-Virus, v. 8, yesterday. When I was done
and rebooted, none of my apps work. When I click on an icon
I get "path not found" error - even though everything is
still right where it should be. If I open Windows
Explorer and go to the folder itself and click the
executable the same error "path not found". If I put a cd
in and try to run an app directly from that CD, the same
error comes up. Also, if I try to copy from HD to HD, or CD
Drive to HD, I get a read error (I don't remember exactly
what it said and I'm not at the system right now). At one
point I was able to start copying a folder, it went to 40%
or so, then hung.

I have Windows 2000 Pro on a P4 with a gb of mem. I'm not
sure what virus's were found - I had someone reboot the
system when I wasn't there thinking I could just check the
Symantec log, but I can't run SAV.

I know I'll probably have to re-image the C drive and
install W2K again, but I'd like to be able to copy some
files from the C to D drive and, in order to do that I
think I may need some sort of fix for this issue.

Has anyone seen anything like this before?

Any help would be great!
Thanks!
- Rob
 
I would take the hd and slave it in a good machine, don't boot off it and run chkdsk to see if the drive has errors. Then copy the
files over to whatever backup. If the drive is ok, format it, stick it back in the original machine and reimage. Saves a lot of
hassle.
 
I am getting the same issue as the following report
below. The only difference is eTrust AntiVirus was used
here.

I need a way to fix this. I believe it is a critical path
that needs to be restored. Can this be done through the
recovery console?

-Roderick

-----Original Message-----
Hey Everyone,

Hey Everyone,

I ran Symantec Anti-Virus, v. 8, yesterday. When I was
done and rebooted, none of my apps work. When I click on
an icon I get "path not found" error - even though
everything is still right where it should be. If I open
Windows Explorer and go to the folder itself and click
the executable the same error "path not found". If I put
a cd in and try to run an app directly from that CD, the
same error comes up. Also, if I try to copy from HD to
HD, or CD Drive to HD, I get a read error (I don't
remember exactly what it said and I'm not at the system
right now). At one point I was able to start copying a
folder, it went to 40% or so, then hung.

I have Windows 2000 Pro on a P4 with a gb of mem. I'm not
sure what virus's were found - I had someone reboot the
system when I wasn't there thinking I could just check
the Symantec log, but I can't run SAV or anything. Not
even CMD.EXE.
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Rob,

Did yo find a work around for this without re-imaging the
drive?

My client has the same issue.

-Roderick
 
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