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kittykat

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scanning
« on: October 21, 2004, 02:10:19 AM »
i am having trouble trying to scan"D".i had no problems before,now every time i select it nothing happens.any help would be great thanks.
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inthewildteam

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Re:scanning
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2004, 02:20:36 AM »
Welcome to the forum kittykat,

we need more info,

your operating system and any updates to it, if you have 1 hard-drive partitioned into 2 or more.  Or 2 hard-drives, what anti-virus solution you are using now and if you have used others before installing avast!
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Re:scanning
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2004, 02:44:34 AM »
Quote from: kittykat on October 21, 2004, 02:10:19 AM
i am having trouble trying to scan"D".

What troubles? Do you receive an error message? Which one?
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kittykat

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« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2004, 01:46:04 AM »
thank you for replying and for the welcome.i am running window's 98 and only using the avast anti virus.i have only 1 hard drive.it was working fine all along and suddenly stopped scanning d,however it will still scan c.i tried uninstalling it and then re-installing .that did not fix the problem.i have a firewall installed .sygate personal firewall.i am not receiving any error messages when this happens.once again i would appreciate any help u could offer.thanks. :)
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Re:scanning
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2004, 01:50:08 AM »
Have you run a scandisk on D: to see if there are any problems with it?
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inthewildteam

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« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2004, 02:04:20 AM »
kittykat,

with refernce to Eddy's reply, if you "right click My Computer" is drive D: still still shown?
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kittykat

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« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2004, 01:26:33 AM »
hi all thanks again for your help.d was still under my computer so i tired yo scan it that way and an error message came up saying "device is not ready".does anyone know how i can correct this?thanks again.
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« Reply #7 on: October 23, 2004, 01:31:25 AM »
Start with running checkdisk. It looks like the FAT on the D partition is damaged.
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inthewildteam

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« Reply #8 on: October 23, 2004, 01:34:52 AM »
Just a thought, can you reboot into dos mode and see if you can access D: that way?

Sorry, I'm assuming knowledge of dos commands.  Do you know them?

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inthewildteam

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« Reply #9 on: October 23, 2004, 01:36:01 AM »
@ Eddy,

as always, faster to the point and better reply!   ;)
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kittykat

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« Reply #10 on: October 23, 2004, 02:01:57 AM »
hi again.i will try running a check disc and see what happens.as for dos commands i have no idea.i will let u know how the check disc goes.i'm new at this and it's nice to know u guys r there to help.thanks wild nad eddy. :-*
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Re:scanning
« Reply #11 on: October 23, 2004, 04:40:57 PM »
Probably a stupid question, but still: what exactly is the D: partition? Isn't it some kind of removable device (not present at the time of scanning)?
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