Well, when I fired up the computer this morning, it would not boot. Somehow the FAT table was corrupted. Since the system restore appears to have worked, and given that it is Friday the 13th, I am wondering if I picked up a virus (if I did, thanks a million McAfee for a job well done).
At any rate, I seem to be back in business. Luckily I didn't lose too terribly much, although I did lose some stuff.
Most annoying.
Posted by Steven Taylor at June 13, 2024 11:01 AM | TrackBackIf you had working and up to date virus scan software, the virus should not have infected your machine in the first place. I doubt you were hit with a virus.
FAT can get corrupted and it's one of the reasons that previous versions of windows are so unreliable (and if you're using FAT and your OS has the ability to do a system restore, I'm betting you're on a machine *upgraded* from Win98 or ME to XP.)
What I'd suggest for you to do in the near future is to backup your data and do a format and reinstall. And heck, I'd go with NTFS rather than FAT as my file system.
It's just the idea that you got corrupted once, it could happen again. Better to do a reinstall on your time rather than on the night before a big deadline.
Posted by: joy at June 14, 2024 08:53 AM