Note that if the HD is bootable, or was bootable, it may not show up in Windows. When you have a boot sector on a HD, Windows thinks it's a dual-boot system and the HD won't show up when you boot from another drive and slave (or hook up to another controller) the previous bootable drive to copy data from it. I think in XP I was able to overcome this by going to "Computer management" and "Disk management" then converting the drive to either a "Dynamic" or that other option. Can't recall exactly. You should wait for more input on that because I can't remember if I was able to copy the data or not after converting it. (That's a long story. Last time I had to do this, my main HD lost all of its partitions and was no longer bootable nor accessible. But, Windows still saw enough of the boot record to think it was bootable and it wasn't visible in Windows except for the Device Manager and that Disk Management area. I had to run numerous utilities to 'destroy' the boot record, and then I was able to convert it under Disk Management and drag the data from it. But I don't recall to what I had to convert it to get the data). -Clint
God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Carnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm going to do what you all suggested right at the beginning, wipe the drive and start over. I think i can copy his music to another HD that I'll set up as a slave, and then I'll format the original one. thanks for all your insight and comments, Its much appreciated, Roger C. ----- Original Message ----- OrpheusComputing.com" I couldn't agree more with what Ben said. Get what you can off the HD and start over. That's much quicker. There's no telling what those guys put on that PC, or allowed to get on it. You may try just reinstalling Windows, but before you do that you'd have to run all the anti-malware programs and all the online scanners from AV software companies to be sure it was clean. -Clint ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Carnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wsock32.dll would probably make more sense but the one in the email is a direct copy from the computer. Usually, I will just do a format and reinstall but this one has about 40 gig of music on it that i'd like to save, if possible. I've done the format on this machine before but it only had about 15 gig of music then. I installed a tape drive and copied it that way. I don't have a 40 gig HD laying around or I might install it as a secondary ide and copy just the "tunes" folder. Maybe he'll have to invest in another drive. It has a 60GB in it right now with only about 10 left. I'll run that error message. Thanks Ben, Roger ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Moore" < Is that supposed to be wsock32.dll? Plug the error message into Google and you'll find a wealth of information about possible causes. One was interesting ... this could be a virus, Look at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;282997 It was my experience with Windows 98 that trying to repair something of this nature was nearly impossible. You can spend hours on it and it will still never be right. The best thing to do would be to format and reinstall especially if people have been just deleting things. Ben Moore ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
