Thread: Hoping someone can help with pc prob
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Old 09-21-2006, 08:50 AM
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Originally Posted by amortu
I downloaded the DOS virus scanner earlier, ran it and was told that the drive wasn't ready (or something to that effect), and that the PAGEFILE.SYS was being used by another application. I ran it again in Safe Mode and got the same message. I don't know it that's meant to came up, but it did say it found no virus.
You're not supposed to run it under Windows. You need to boot the computer to command line only to run it. When you boot the comp, press F8 and then choose "Command Prompt only" or something to that effect. Then use the command line to run the anti-virus.

This should help: http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1723


For Device Drivers, read this: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=322205

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