Hello- A worm recently ruined my hard drive, so I installed a new one. The old drive was 'C' but the new one is 'F'. I still see that 'C' is assigned to 'Removeable disk', and when I go to Computer Management, I see 'F' & 'C'. When I right click on 'C' it shows that my printer is considered a disk drive. Very often I get the error message: "wwDisp.exe - No Disk". Then underneath: "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \Device\Harddisk1\DR2. I know it's all connected, but I just don't know what to do. Any comments would be most appreciated!

"A worm recently ruined my hard drive, so I installed a new one." What?? Never heard of a format? You need to check the jumper on the new drive to make sure it is set as master. If the drive is blank then you need to boot with a bootdisk and partition and format it and instal an operating system on it. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and his wife will never forgive you.

That did sound pretty stupid. I needed to get a second hard drive anyway, and I sent the old one off to a friend of mine to see if he could get anything off of it. Meantime, I went ahead and bought a new one, just so that I would have a computer again. The jumper is set to master. And why would my HP printer be listing itself as a drive? Should I uninstall and reinstall it--the printer? Thanks very much Steve

Steve, I think I know what you are trying to do but how you got to the point you are at is a mystery. When you got the new drive it would have to have been partitioned and formated then install an operating system so how did you do that? if we knew how you got to where you are we could help more.

Surely. If you got a new hard drive, Installed Windows on it WHILE it was installed in machine as C: drive, do not know why Windows says it is F:.

Ok, maybe this will help. I did still have the old hard drive in at the time I installed the new hard drive. I put the old one as 'slave' and the new one as 'master'. I was hoping to be able to retrieve some of my files off of the old one, as it wouldn't boot. I had yet to learn of the amount of damage the worm had done. So could this have caused the problem? Sorry, I'm still in the learning phase here. thanks Steve