I recently contracted a virus on my PC. I had it serviced by a computer service and unfortunately, I lost all my programs, documents..etc.. well, everything. They installed a few of their programs on to the computer, however, in the process of using the recovery disk, i was told that the disk was scratched and now I don't even have that. what can i do? Thanks in advance..

There is no such animal as "Win ME 2000" - it'd have to be one or the other (unless you are dual booting) "what can i do?" Well, what do you think? Most likely, you need another installation disc If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't, I'll just respond, cleverly --Donald Rumsfeld

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odd... I posted the following in response to this query a day or so back...? Often it's not the CD that is scratched...; just an error message that suggests it is and the error message is coughed up for other reasons... Typically the reason can be RAM; it's failing... So you swap out RAM stick (mainatining a min for the OS involved...) and try each stick out of the system in turn; The error message (first came to my attention here an aeon ago... on the NT forum). What exactly is the error message you're getting?