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clevelandst124 · 10-02-2007, 12:57 PM

Okay, I'm an idiot but I'm working through this and I think I'm close. I had plugged the sata cable in the wrong sata slot

. So I was enabling drive 2 but I was hooked to drive 3. I placed the SATA on drive 2, enabled and started up windows with my clean copy. Instead of booting into Windows immediately, it went to this error screen. It claimed my second hard drive needed a consistency check. It gave me a whole 5 seconds to think about it before automatically starting the consistency check. This took a while. But after my previous experience with interupting Windows, I let it go through it's steps. So it finished and I now see the drive in windows and scanned through it really quick.

So here is my next dumb question. It appears as if the consistency check left my drive intact. There are 143 gigs used out of 148 gigs available. I don't remember the exact amount I had but I constantly had to delete things to install more, so this is about right. My dumb question is where is the information that used to be on my desktop, documents and folders. This is where most of my information is and I didn't really want to snoop around and give the virus a chance to jump to my clean drive. This is also why I didn't want to do a windows search, but I can if necessary.

Also, I don't know how much I trust it now, but I do have McAffey on my new drive. Only thing I've installed. This virus pretty much whipped it last time, is it wise to try a scan on the drive now?

10-02-2007, 12:57 PM	#14
clevelandst124 Member (4 bit) Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 9	Okay, I'm an idiot but I'm working through this and I think I'm close. I had plugged the sata cable in the wrong sata slot . So I was enabling drive 2 but I was hooked to drive 3. I placed the SATA on drive 2, enabled and started up windows with my clean copy. Instead of booting into Windows immediately, it went to this error screen. It claimed my second hard drive needed a consistency check. It gave me a whole 5 seconds to think about it before automatically starting the consistency check. This took a while. But after my previous experience with interupting Windows, I let it go through it's steps. So it finished and I now see the drive in windows and scanned through it really quick. So here is my next dumb question. It appears as if the consistency check left my drive intact. There are 143 gigs used out of 148 gigs available. I don't remember the exact amount I had but I constantly had to delete things to install more, so this is about right. My dumb question is where is the information that used to be on my desktop, documents and folders. This is where most of my information is and I didn't really want to snoop around and give the virus a chance to jump to my clean drive. This is also why I didn't want to do a windows search, but I can if necessary. Also, I don't know how much I trust it now, but I do have McAffey on my new drive. Only thing I've installed. This virus pretty much whipped it last time, is it wise to try a scan on the drive now? Last edited by clevelandst124; 10-02-2007 at 12:59 PM.