I would be grateful for some advice: background is a laptop omnibook 6000 running under ME. Unfortunately I visited a web site I shouldnt and I believe I picked up a virus,as the hard disk started clicking vigorously between stops afterwards I managed to make a limited backup, before machine became difficult to operate. It seems to override the screen display settings, and blank the screen as I ran norton systemworks to track down the problem,. Unfortunately I may have had the virus warning switched off before visiting site - and did not have a firewall installed!! Subsequent attempts to boot up windows me have not worked because a) vmm32.vxd is corrupted b) if I create a temporary me boot partition and then run SETUP prior to re-installing ME over corrupted version, SETUP does not work as the SCANDISK utility gets bogged down in endless searches for cross-linked clusters. I have run norton systemworks (Using NAVXD) via bootup and it claims not to find any viruses, although a test version of INVIRCIBLE virus checker claims to find 'MAGISTAR.A' as a virus - although does not correct it as its license has expired Can you give any advice on how to get windows me re-running without reinitiliasing disk and losing data?I have followed some of the guides on this web site but to no avail Is there any software that I can procure - that runs from dos prompt to get me up and running? any comments gratefully received R Barrey

Look at this reply. http://computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/30687.html

For details on your vmm32.vxd problem look at this link. http://www.infinisource.com/techfiles/vmm32.html