Britt
10-14-2001, 11:57 PM
My friend Kildarre, who you all might know, asked me to post this.
<b>Imnotusnit</b>: Got any really smart tech friends?
<b>Britt</b>: Not exactly.. Why?
<b>Imnotusnit</b> wants to directly connect.
<b>Imnotusnit</b> is now directly connected.
<b>Imnotusnit</b>: [15:36]
[mirc log...]
( Kildarre ) Either of you possibly any good at HD stuff?
[15:36] *** Kildarre1 has quit IRC (Quit: Leaving)
[15:36] ( OpenFriday ) depends on the problem
[15:36] ( OpenFriday ) what sort of troubles are you having?
[15:37] ( Kildarre ) Well, I think I have a virus that Norton isn't detecting. I want to move all my stuff from one HD to my old one (more room). I started with 3.5 GB free. Deleted a lot of stuff and had 6.0 GB free. When I restarted, it was 3.5 GB free again. Scandisk won't work, giving me a memory error, no matter what mode I run it in. I assume the problem is the clusters report themselves as full even with all the data deleted.
[15:38] ( OpenFriday ) what kind of memory error? did you try in dos?
[15:38] ( OpenFriday ) what os?
[15:39] ( Kildarre ) Tried it in DOS, yeah.
[15:39] ( Kildarre ) Windows 98 on the first HD, Windows ME on the old one.
[15:39] ( Kildarre ) Tried Scandisking in both OSes, nothing.
[15:39] ( Kildarre ) It doesn't tell me what kind of memory error.
[15:39] ( Kildarre ) It just says "There is not enough memory to run Scandisk. Close one or more programs then press retry"
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[15:40] ( Kildarre ) But even with nearly everything terminated it still doesn't run.
[15:40] ( OpenFriday ) gull
[15:40] ( Tweakgull ) wup all
[15:40] ( Kildarre ) Even in Safe Modee.
[15:40] ( Kildarre ) Hey Tweakgull.
[15:40] ( Final-Reality ) may be a harddrive failure
[15:41] ( Final-Reality ) if it went from 6GB to 3.5GB who knows if its just not reporting it properly or what
[15:41] ( Kildarre ) I don't think so. I can still access everything, everything works fine, etc., this just won't work properly.
[15:41] ( Kildarre ) FR, I'm saying it reverted back to what it was before I touched anytihng
[15:42] ( Kildarre ) It showed the changes and deletes as being made before a restart, but from what I can tell went back to the exact same number of bytes it was before I touched it.
[15:42] ( OpenFriday ) sounds like the fat tables are just out of sync... scandisk would fix that if it would run
[15:43] ( OpenFriday ) or i think there was a virus called the space filler virus going around... not sure what the sympotoms of that were tho
[15:43] ( Kildarre ) That's what frustrates me. I can't run Scandisk.
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<b>Britt</b>: Wow.
<b>Britt</b>: *knows nothing about that stuff* Unne or Bleys might, but that's just a shot in the dark.
<b>Imnotusnit</b>: Then ask them please.
<b>Britt</b>: They're not online, but you could always PM them.
<b>Imnotusnit</b>: Could you?
<b>Britt</b>: Sure. Actually, I'll make a thread about it. Faster, that way.
Any advice?
<b>Imnotusnit</b>: Got any really smart tech friends?
<b>Britt</b>: Not exactly.. Why?
<b>Imnotusnit</b> wants to directly connect.
<b>Imnotusnit</b> is now directly connected.
<b>Imnotusnit</b>: [15:36]
[mirc log...]
( Kildarre ) Either of you possibly any good at HD stuff?
[15:36] *** Kildarre1 has quit IRC (Quit: Leaving)
[15:36] ( OpenFriday ) depends on the problem
[15:36] ( OpenFriday ) what sort of troubles are you having?
[15:37] ( Kildarre ) Well, I think I have a virus that Norton isn't detecting. I want to move all my stuff from one HD to my old one (more room). I started with 3.5 GB free. Deleted a lot of stuff and had 6.0 GB free. When I restarted, it was 3.5 GB free again. Scandisk won't work, giving me a memory error, no matter what mode I run it in. I assume the problem is the clusters report themselves as full even with all the data deleted.
[15:38] ( OpenFriday ) what kind of memory error? did you try in dos?
[15:38] ( OpenFriday ) what os?
[15:39] ( Kildarre ) Tried it in DOS, yeah.
[15:39] ( Kildarre ) Windows 98 on the first HD, Windows ME on the old one.
[15:39] ( Kildarre ) Tried Scandisking in both OSes, nothing.
[15:39] ( Kildarre ) It doesn't tell me what kind of memory error.
[15:39] ( Kildarre ) It just says "There is not enough memory to run Scandisk. Close one or more programs then press retry"
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[15:40] ( Kildarre ) But even with nearly everything terminated it still doesn't run.
[15:40] ( OpenFriday ) gull
[15:40] ( Tweakgull ) wup all
[15:40] ( Kildarre ) Even in Safe Modee.
[15:40] ( Kildarre ) Hey Tweakgull.
[15:40] ( Final-Reality ) may be a harddrive failure
[15:41] ( Final-Reality ) if it went from 6GB to 3.5GB who knows if its just not reporting it properly or what
[15:41] ( Kildarre ) I don't think so. I can still access everything, everything works fine, etc., this just won't work properly.
[15:41] ( Kildarre ) FR, I'm saying it reverted back to what it was before I touched anytihng
[15:42] ( Kildarre ) It showed the changes and deletes as being made before a restart, but from what I can tell went back to the exact same number of bytes it was before I touched it.
[15:42] ( OpenFriday ) sounds like the fat tables are just out of sync... scandisk would fix that if it would run
[15:43] ( OpenFriday ) or i think there was a virus called the space filler virus going around... not sure what the sympotoms of that were tho
[15:43] ( Kildarre ) That's what frustrates me. I can't run Scandisk.
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<b>Britt</b>: Wow.
<b>Britt</b>: *knows nothing about that stuff* Unne or Bleys might, but that's just a shot in the dark.
<b>Imnotusnit</b>: Then ask them please.
<b>Britt</b>: They're not online, but you could always PM them.
<b>Imnotusnit</b>: Could you?
<b>Britt</b>: Sure. Actually, I'll make a thread about it. Faster, that way.
Any advice?