OK, here's the situation:
I ran Norton Anitivirus on my mom's Dell laptop for the first time in months (no telling what kind of virus she downloads). However when I ran it, it came up with something like the boot sector has been changed or tampered with since the last check. Well, I couldn't remeber any new boot sector activities that were supposed to occur between last check and this check, so I click repair (so it'll return it to original form). Well, in the middle of 'repairing' it, the program froze (windows Me - what a load). So, reluctantly I rebooted. I got lucky and it booted up. Everything was fine except that scandisk runs every boot up on a nonexsistent hard drive.
Upon rebooting, a new, exact copy of the hard drive appears in My computer (labled D drive). It contains the exact same files, size, etc. as the old C-Drive (which is still there). In addition, a removable drive also magically appeared.
So, to satisfy my mom, until I can resolve this issue without formatting and reloading, I need to know how to disable scandisk upon start up. Then I can move on to figuring out what went wrong and trying to correct it.
So, first, how do I disable scandisk coming up at start up?
If possible, anyone have any ideas as to how to correct the problem of magically an exact copy of the hard drive and another unknown removable hard drive coming up? I am guessing it has something to do with the MBR or some sort. If I fdisk, I'm sure that'll fix the problem, but I'll take the chance of messing up my mom's computer and performing a format/reload which is NOT an option. So, can anyone help??
Thanks all
I ran Norton Anitivirus on my mom's Dell laptop for the first time in months (no telling what kind of virus she downloads). However when I ran it, it came up with something like the boot sector has been changed or tampered with since the last check. Well, I couldn't remeber any new boot sector activities that were supposed to occur between last check and this check, so I click repair (so it'll return it to original form). Well, in the middle of 'repairing' it, the program froze (windows Me - what a load). So, reluctantly I rebooted. I got lucky and it booted up. Everything was fine except that scandisk runs every boot up on a nonexsistent hard drive.
Upon rebooting, a new, exact copy of the hard drive appears in My computer (labled D drive). It contains the exact same files, size, etc. as the old C-Drive (which is still there). In addition, a removable drive also magically appeared.
So, to satisfy my mom, until I can resolve this issue without formatting and reloading, I need to know how to disable scandisk upon start up. Then I can move on to figuring out what went wrong and trying to correct it.
So, first, how do I disable scandisk coming up at start up?
If possible, anyone have any ideas as to how to correct the problem of magically an exact copy of the hard drive and another unknown removable hard drive coming up? I am guessing it has something to do with the MBR or some sort. If I fdisk, I'm sure that'll fix the problem, but I'll take the chance of messing up my mom's computer and performing a format/reload which is NOT an option. So, can anyone help??
Thanks all
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