Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 09:47:09 12/07/00
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On December 07, 2000 at 12:34:03, James T. Walker wrote: >I turned on my computer this morning and it fails to boot up windows. I get a >message "Data error reading drive C" and "Fail Retry Abort". If I tell it to >retry it gives me "cannot find a device or file that may be needed to run >windows or a windows application. It then names vserver.vxd. If I hit retry >again it gives me VSHINIT.VXD and again I get ndiswan.vxd. After that nothing >but a blue screen. I ran scandisk and tested the surface with no problems >found. I can boot in Windows "Safe mode" but when I click on "Help" nothing >happens. If I boot in MSDOS safe mode command prompt only and try to read the >"Windows\System" directory I get a data error reading drive C. I cannot >read/write to that directory. In Windows safe mode I can click on "Mycomputer" >and explore the Windows\System directory with no problems and the files >mentioned above appear normal in byte size. If anyone can give me some >suggestions or point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated. Yuck. It sounds possibly like you may have a boot-sector virus of some kind. It could also be a number of other things. :( >Should I try to reinstall Windows 98? Most definitely. Sorry I can't really offer much more help in this regard, but I hope this may be of some help. :/ Jeremiah
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