Hi Kem... you honor me... Yes, I can now boot up without the Blue screen... My PC was a two (500g mirrored) setup... I changed the one dynamic drive to a basic for more space (also b/c the hackers were using the redundancy against me)... after identifying the scripts and file locals, I copied the whole C: drive to the D: drive.... then I rebooted the C: drive for a fresh start... after it was complete I input my new user name restarted I could never reach my newly rebooted C: drive again... until I removed the D: drive and even then it still gave a mem dump... so I had to reboot all over again without the D:.....Hmm..interesting problem.. Does this mean that you can now boot up without Blue screening and just need to access the drive in question for the evidence it contains?
I think I know what your talking about... I really don't want to remove the virus.. I want it to work as intended... the drive was fine with the viruses until I tried booting from a good drive while it was attached....Also do you know which virus is the culprit? If it's a common one then you could always re-attach the drive as a slave and a good anti-virus app should be able to grab it..
Unfortunatlly I'm back to vista ultimate... I have updated to the latest bios for vista not for 7... I agree with you I'm not going to mess with the drive again until it gets eval'd by a Pro...Hi xrams,
Much thanks for the kind words..
I checked out your link for the firmware update and the only thing that seems amiss is that it say's the firmware is for vista only but as your using one drive without problems then it could just a 'red herring'. I also noticed that there was info' on your system concerning updating to 7 and needing to update the bios?
As for the corrupted drive, if you don't want to remove the virus for evidence reasons then have you considered going to a specialist that deals with recovering data?
Sorry I couldn't be more help but if you take the drive to a 'pro' would you let me know how you got on?
Hi Drew... no need to apologize.... I don't need to boot both (and as a side question: why do folks have dual boot Drives, I never understood that)..... anyway, I don't know why my PC all the sudden shut down due to this issue... to answer your question, NO; I can't see any of the drives b/c the PC went blue after I copied all the data over and rebooted my other 500g drive..Why do you need to boot into both? If you open Computer from the drive into which you are booted can't you see & access all drives, even the external? Thereby being able to copy or move data between the drives. Apologise if I've missed something in the thread or scenario.
Drew
"A scan a day keeps the nasties away!"