This is a problem i searched the archives for, and was unable to find anything, so I hope someone can help! I know its long, but bear with me. Heres my setup: Western Digital 40 GB drive: 20gb NTFS partition (win2000) 20gb NTFS partition (winxp) IBM 80 gb drive: 80gb Fat32 partition (documents, music, movies, etc.) My problem is this- I noticed that on my 80gb drive, my directories and files would disappear for a while, then after rebooting a couple times, they would be there again later. I thought it might be a drive error (like bad sectors that could only be read part of the time), so i tried to run scandisk or norton disk doctor, but when it runs the program (it has to do it after reboot, before windows completes loading) the scan begins, but then just hangs, and it reads 0% complete. Maybe its a virus, i thought. I tried scanning all three drives with AVG antivirus, but it found nothing. Then i scanned the NTFS drives with norton antivirus 2003, and they found nothing. But, everytime i try to scan the 80gb fat32 drive, it scans the first approx. 6,600 files, then it flashes to BSOD and reboots. When booting up, winxp says it needs to scan the drive for errors, it scans it quickly, and says that no errors are found. Then when i log into winxp, the window pops up on my desktop that says -The system has recovered from a serious error- I have tried to scan the drive 5 times, and the same thing happens everytime. Here are the screenshots of the errors i was getting BSOD1 BSOD2 XP Error Also, some of my programs are starting to not function properly. Is this a virus, or a hard drive problem, or maybe both?? Can anyone help me??? If not, does anyone know the answers to these questions, so i can try to fix it myself: 1)Is there a program i can use to completely wipe a drive clean, (more than just fdisk)i need one that will clean the boot sectors and other hidden areas that powerful viruses might be hiding. 2)If i reset the CMOS on my motherboard using the reset jumpers, will it eliminate any BIOS viruses i may have gotten? 3)Would the virus on my comp be a separate file hidden somewhere on my drive, or could it be hidden in a file, like integrated into an .mp3 or .avi or .doc file. This leads to question 4. 4)I just bought a new 80gb external usb drive. If i install it on my existing setup, and just transfer over the files individually, in an effort to leave the contaminated files on the old drive, making sure not to transfer any system files or anything that might be infected, will i screw up the new drive?? Or will it automatically be infected just because i install it on my comp? If anyone has any advice on any of these questions, i would really appreciate it!! THANKS If you need more information, ask and i will post back.

Just a little advice for you ... may or may not be valid to your case. You are dual booting correct ?? Is XP installed with the boot records or the win2000. I can tell you this, if you are dual booting xp and another OS .. i was running Millennium(ME) and XP pro on old pc, with ME on C: with boot records. It worked fine for a while, then it started to crash. I couldn't figure it out. Till i switched it around and XP was on C: ... then it stopped with the BSOD like you have. 3 other people have told me about the same dual boot problem, seems: 1)xp likes to be on C: for dual booting. If not it can act really screwy especially on a logical partition ... and it will cause disk access errors ... i have had that on a perfectly good hard disk. BSOD and boot problems. Sometimes it won't find the boot records till you reset the pc and it will work fine again. Pagefile seems to be part of the problem. 2) You BIOS could also be the problem, maybe you need to flash it ... if you have new hardware and an old bios, you can get weird problems like yours ROM won't recognise some newer hardware 3) Seems to me that if you scanned with 2 virus scanners and they say ok, then you don't seem to have a virus problem ?? Do an online scan to be sure. 4) I got errors like yours (screenshots) on my pc PAGE FAULT IN NON PAGED AREAS 5) page faults and memory management errors like you have can be caused by resource conflicts. I think you have an OS problem and nothing more ... however you could well have a virus or a bad hard disk, but i would have a look at the software first. ps. 1.8 mb pics on yahoo .. lol bandwidth on yahoo sux and on dial up ..your pics toook ages to load ... try cropping hope it helps in someway

Thanks for the help, hylian_lynk. A lot of good info i didnt know. Sorry bout the big pics, i cant crop them, since photoshop is one of the progs that isnt working. Does anyone else have any ideas about my problem??? Thanks!!