Come on chaps, we are here to help Durnial (if possible), so lets not disagree too much among ourselves. I am not that up on wxp, but seem to recall that the dos 'choice' Daveincaps refers to, is not always there. Possible this relates to how the o/s was installed in the first place. Even if it is, surely this not actually the boot o/s as it is part (or under) wxp. Perhaps my and Dave's query in what the scan is for, is the path to follow. Regards - Mike Good Luck -Keep us posted.

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Windows XP has NO true DOS mode. Use a Win98 bootdisk to use your scan, assuming that your disks are in FAT, because DOS doesn't recognise NTFS.

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What is this scan that you are running that is telling you to put the machine into dos mode? Is it a surface scan, virus scan, integrity scan? What kind of scan is it?

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CUP, it does not matter, XP has no relation to XP, except they are both re-writes of other peoples software.........

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The OP stated the scan instructions were to "press F8 and then select Safe Mode with Command Prompt". That is something you can do with XP, in spite of my initial uncertainty. Yeah, it might not be Dos but it kinda works like dos. His problem doesn't seem to be in selecting that option but in getting to the command prompt. My OS option menu doesn't have the 'Windows Recovery Console' choice and I'm thinking this may be another menu layer. That's why I thought hitting F8 again might work. If not, as already mentioned, he may want to post in the XP forum as we don't seem to be getting anywhere here.

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Mike, Thanks for the info. Everything that I have tried to this point does not work. I am just going to leave it alone and let the viruses remain on the computer. I did not know exactly what forum to post this to. I am sorry for not posting it to the correct forum. Thank you for the info!! Angie

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Don't worry too much about your forum choice. Most get here through google and it's logical to post in the same forum. Some people tend to be a bit overly protective of this forum and treat it as if it was their virginal daughter going out on her first date. Although this is supposed to be a 'pure' dos forum, the windows 'command prompt' is more dos than windows. But in this case your problem was about the XP boot menu not going where you wanted. So dimwits like me who rarely use XP aren't going to be as much help as those who regularly hang out in the XP forum.

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Durnial - you have not advised if you tried the 'Recovery Console' mode. Was there a dos option there? If you suspect you have virus problems:- it is my experience that freebies from the net do not give the same protection as those purchased. The market leaders are Norton and Macafee. An unused Norton Internet Security 2006 or 2007 can be found for around £10 on ebay. These come with 12 months updates. I regularly delete my internet temp files, particularly immediately before a scan. Spybot is good (and free), but I found the 'constant protection' option too much of an overhead on my old pc. I only use it to scan occasionally as a bit of extra protection to Norton. All the above run under windows. Good Luck - Keep us posted.

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