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It's not an infection. Somebody tried to install the Blazing Tools Perfect Keylogger, an entirely legitimate app if installed intentionally. You can buy it on the web.

Not only that, many, MANY...

It absolutely will run with just the adapter. I know this for sure, having done it with that model.

The reason the dirty bit was set was because the drive "disconnected" as you said, which means that it was an improper shutdown and thus set a dirty bit. The remote check disk resolved this.

The...

That's ok. It's not the end of the world. It was simple enough to rule out the possibility.

The Western Digital tools can pass a drive, even when the partition and $MFT is either a) in trouble...

You can't access "Documents and Settings" because that folder doesn't exist in Vista. There's no taking ownership of it or anything else because it's not a real folder. It's called a "Junction" and...

Out of curiosity.. have you checked the power supply? Especially if it's a cheap one or came with the case. The reason I ask this is that I had something similar happen once.. It was a power...

Sorry. Let's get this straight. I offered constructive advice. I offered tools and techniques. All I've done in the last week is help people, and actually got it right every single time, unlike...

That's a great idea. The personal files are the most important thing of all. The rest is easily replaceable. Make the backup, then after that it doesn't matter any more one way or the other.

The unknown variable here is WHAT we'll learn..



...so far I'm learning that you're reading comprehension is about as bad as your technical abilities.

Now. Fink has spoken. Shut the hell...

The M2N68? Not a bad little board at all. The speed increase you'll see will be marginal at best. Maybe, MAYBE 20%.

2GB for XP is more than enough. If you start going over 3 you might actually...

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Google apps. Familiarize yourself with it, it will be your friend :) Best online apps ever.

Hey, it's not bad.. I just did a search for my chosen search terms and three of the first four results are mine (the third one is someone else's).

I can live with that :D

If it doesn't find the Windows install, that drive is probably fubared too. Are you sure you don't have a bad hard drive cable or bad RAM? Have you tested the RAM using memtest?

Happy Canada Day eh? :p

Sorry about the cryptography.. Brain fart there.

Click Start

Click Run

In the box type net stop beep and click ok.

Go into the disk manager and see what it says.

Right click on My Computer. Click manage. Go to Disk Management near the bottom in the left hand column.

Make sure you have the right version of Windows. If it's XP Home, you must do it with an XP Home disk. If it's XP Pro, it must be done with an XP Pro disk. If it's XP Media Centre... well, you get...

I don't mind the Inspiron, really, but there's a secret to buying a Dell.. They overcharge for ALL their upgrades. That's how they make their money, upsells and finance charges. Their upsell...

lol :D

Tinkerton, there's nothing wrong with doing a fresh install, especially in the case of severe damage. Besides, if it's not done right, reinfection can reoccur in very short order anyways....

Ummm. Yeah.

See, that's why there are two types of geeks in this world. Those that have "paper smarts".. Typically the ones "trained" on forums (I saw one that claimed they were a real tech, but...

Disable the beep service.

net stop beep

sc config beep start= disabled

If done exactly as mentioned, it will simply repair your Windows install. All your programs and files will still be intact. :)

If you happen to still be in doubt about the process, please read...

It doesn't need to be updated to find a rootkit. In a worst case scenario, it will confirm rootkit activity. Nonetheless, I've personally confirmed that Superantispyware running on another machine...

That, my friend, looks like Rustok or other variant of an "API hook" (API stands for "Application Program Interface"). The reason you won't find it, nor will anyone else here with the standard...

It's actually quite simple, but please follow these instructions precisely.

First you download a program called "Pocket Killbox".

Next, do the following:

Go into My Computer.
Click on...

HAL.DLL is the Hardware Extraction Layer DLL (incidentally, .dll files are "dynamic link libraries). You have bigger problems than just expanding the .DLL from the XP disk from the sounds of it. ...