Hello,
I've asked this question in a few newsgroups and don't seem to get any answers. I've been trying to re-install windows after reformatting my hard drive on my toshiba laptop. Everytime I'm running into the same problem. I get win98 installed, install my drivers for my laptop, of course rebooting several times as
requied. Then if I shut my computer off for a while (over an hour or so) when I boot my laptop up I get into windows, then get an explorer.exe error, when I click on details all that is there is a bunch of squares. So I shut down and go into dos mode, and when I check the windows folder it has been renamed to win@oss, and most of my other folder have been renamed in some format or another. Does anyone know what is causing this? I've loaded Norton Virus 2001
on it a couple of times and it dosen't find any virus', I've used f-prot in dos mode a couple of time, and it can't find any ither. Is this a virus, a windows problem, or a possible hardware problem. The laptop worked fine before I formatted my hard drive. One thing to note is that my original disk manager software disk had the NYB boot sector virus in it the first couple of times I reformatted the HD, but neither virus detection software picked it up on the HD,
could this still be hidding in memory or something??? I've just reformated my hard drive with zerofill and have shut it off and will leave it off overnight. DOes anyone have any sugestions, or experience with this??
P.S. I ran scandisk on this drive and it came up perfectly clean.
Thanks
Brett F
I've asked this question in a few newsgroups and don't seem to get any answers. I've been trying to re-install windows after reformatting my hard drive on my toshiba laptop. Everytime I'm running into the same problem. I get win98 installed, install my drivers for my laptop, of course rebooting several times as
requied. Then if I shut my computer off for a while (over an hour or so) when I boot my laptop up I get into windows, then get an explorer.exe error, when I click on details all that is there is a bunch of squares. So I shut down and go into dos mode, and when I check the windows folder it has been renamed to win@oss, and most of my other folder have been renamed in some format or another. Does anyone know what is causing this? I've loaded Norton Virus 2001
on it a couple of times and it dosen't find any virus', I've used f-prot in dos mode a couple of time, and it can't find any ither. Is this a virus, a windows problem, or a possible hardware problem. The laptop worked fine before I formatted my hard drive. One thing to note is that my original disk manager software disk had the NYB boot sector virus in it the first couple of times I reformatted the HD, but neither virus detection software picked it up on the HD,
could this still be hidding in memory or something??? I've just reformated my hard drive with zerofill and have shut it off and will leave it off overnight. DOes anyone have any sugestions, or experience with this??
P.S. I ran scandisk on this drive and it came up perfectly clean.
Thanks
Brett F
