Recent content by jackmccarron

FIOL - Sorry for the mixup in names. I really appreciate your help in getting my problem solved. All of you guys are great and I'm really thankful for this and all the other informative forums online. I've learned so much, and have been able to solve every computer problem I've ever had with...

Ben - Thanks much. Your reply "I've never found a file which either "Unlocker" or "Malwarebytes' Anti-malware's" FileASSASSIN hasn't been able to delete" enabled me to complete the removal of Zonealarm from my machine. Actually, Unlocker didn't work, but Fileassassin worked beautifully. Linney...

Hey guys - I finally got my XP to boot. When I got my HD/USB adapter yesterday I was able to attach the xp hd to my vista machine and see its contents. I proceeded to change the ownership of all folders/files to my username, then add an everyone group and give that full control (propagated to...

Thanks again, Linney. Your responses are excellent! I'll keep you posted on what happens. Jack

Thanks guys - I tried making a BartPE disk on my vista machine. I put my XP "recovery disks" in the vista drive, but when the pebuilder did it's scan for system files it didn't see those disks. Even starting it in run admin, couldn't get it recognize the files on my cd/dvd drive. Regarding...

Thanks Linney - Altho it obviously happened, I don't understand how my changing User permissions (in root C) to full control could have banished System from accessing the drive. System was shown to have full control already. Any ideas? I believe that somehow I must have caused this problem, but...

The latest process for generating the BartPE disks does not work with Vista (the only other machine I have), so I can't go that way right now. I'll try to get back to the link for making the Recovery CD. I've closed those links already. Will let you know if I find them. In any case I tried...

A few days ago I was having trouble deleting a non-working file (Zonealarm exe file) because it had the attribute "read-only". This attribute was "grayed out" so I couldn't change it. I then noticed that ALL the files and folders in my C drive were the same way (don't know how that happened)...

Hi linney - Thanks for the info. I found a site that generates the Recovery Console direct to CD rather than all the floppies and then converting them to CD. I ran this but after loading many files, it just comes up with a blue screen saying "a problem has been detected and windows has been...

Thanks, G0AOZ. Since all I have is two laptop pcs, it may not be easy to attach the suspect hard drive to my other one. Suggestions? Meanwhile, I thot I'd try to download (from my other laptop) a DOS boot disk (know of any good free ones?) so I can run my bad machine in DOS. Then I should be...

I'm in a reboot loop. Right after the windows start screen a BSOD appears with "autochk program not found....". That dsiplays for a couple seconds and then reboot starts again. Same behavior in safe mode. Fatal sys error is 0xc0000022. When i put my recovery disk in and try to boot from that I...