Virus ?

[dl65]

Dummy ......Is the partition that shows up the same size as the hard drive or substantialy smaller?
BTW ..you can get a win98x boot disk at bootdisk.com

dl65  

[Dummy]

Sir I have not been installing drivers and know very little about DOS what I have learned was reading and mostly just typing help as for doing a clean install HP will not allow it or I'm not doing it right I have 6 floppies from microsoft and it will always stop on the 4th disk with an error. when I do a system restore the C:\I386|drvapps.log and several others will say they are not recoverable when I retry it will take them but what I have learned from dealing in the registry it always has alot of keys that should not be there.

[Dummy]

Funny thing is for instance if I look at defrag right after I do a restore it shows 2 partitions for C: when I format D and clear the partition it still shows 2 for a little while and then becomes 1 I know it does not make sense but neither does alot of things with this computer. I downloaded a program from Systimarials on the desktop last night and later it disappered in thin air

[dl65]

Dummy ....do you have the 25 character M/S product key code ?   It should be on a sticker mounted on the outside of the case somewhere .

dl65  

[Dummy]

Yes Sir

[dl65]

Dummy ....LOL .....you can dispense with the sir ......LOL
Ok then do you know anyone that you can borrow a original copy of M/S Win XP from and then do a proper clean innstall using that original disk and your product code .

dl65  

[Dummy]

  LOL Sir is a habit from the south and I have already searched the neighborhood either they don't have one or don't want to loan it out. I'm fairly "new" "old" here I was born here but recently moved back. I am really fustrated with this but am not ready to give up I still believe   I lost control of the mouse and had to reboot I strongly suspect the problem is in the progams in DOS simply from the past experience with doing system restores.

[Dummy]

Boot      Boot Bus Extender      1      ACPI      Microsoft ACPI Driver
Boot      Boot Bus Extender      2      PCI      PCI Bus Driver
Boot      Boot Bus Extender      3      isapnp      PnP ISA/EISA Bus Driver
Boot      System Bus Extender      4      IntelIde      
Boot      System Bus Extender      8      MountMgr      
Boot      System Bus Extender      9      Ftdisk      Volume Manager Driver
Boot      System Bus Extender      5      PartMgr      
Boot      System Bus Extender      n/a*      VolSnap      
Boot      SCSI miniport      25      atapi      Standard IDE/ESDI Hard Disk Controller
Boot      SCSI Class      2      Disk      Disk Driver
Boot      Base      1      KSecDD      
Boot      NDIS Wrapper      n/a*      NDIS      NDIS System Driver
Boot      PnP Filter*      4*      agp440      Intel AGP Bus Filter
Boot      Network*      2*      Mup      Mup
Boot      PnP Filter*      6*      nv_agp      NVIDIA nForce AGP Bus Filter
Boot      PnP Filter*      3*      SISAGP      SiS AGP Filter
Boot      PnP Filter*      5*      viaagp1      VIA AGP Filter
System      System Bus Extender      14      lbrtfdc      
System      Primary disk      4      Sfloppy      
System      SCSI Class      45*      i2omgmt      
System      SCSI CDROM Class      1      AFS2K      AFS2k
System      SCSI CDROM Class      2      Cdrom      CD-ROM Driver
System      Filter      5      Changer      
System      Filter      6      Cdaudio      
System      Boot file system      n/a*      Fs_Rec      
System      Base      1      Null      
System      Base      2      Beep      
System      Keyboard Port      4      i8042prt      i8042 Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse Port Driver
System      Pointer Class      1      Mouclass      Mouse Class Driver
System      Keyboard Class      1      Kbdclass      Keyboard Class Driver
System      Video Save      1      VgaSave      
System      Video Save      n/a*      mnmdd      
System      Video Save      n/a*      RDPCDD      
System      File system      n/a*      Msfs      
System      File system      n/a*      Npfs      
System      Streams Drivers      1      RasAcd      Remote Access Auto Connection Driver
System      PNP_TDI      4      IPSec      IPSEC driver
System      PNP_TDI      3      Tcpip      TCP/IP Protocol Driver
System      PNP_TDI      5      NetBT      NetBT
System      NetBIOSGroup      1      NetBIOS      NetBIOS Interface
System      Extended base      1      Serial      Serial port driver
System      Extended Base      3      Processor      Processor Driver
System      Extended Base      5      AmdK7      AMD K7 Processor Driver
System      PCI Configuration      1*      PCIDump      
System      n/a*      n/a*      Fips      
System      Pnp Filter*      2*      Imapi      CD-Burning Filter Driver
System      Network*      5*      MRxSmb      MRXSMB
System      Network*      4*      Rdbss      Rdbss
System      Pnp Filter*      1*      redbook      Digital CD Audio Playback Filter Driver
System      n/a*      n/a*      SiSkp      
System      n/a*      n/a*      TermDD      Terminal Device Driver
Automatic      Event log      n/a*      Eventlog      Event Log
Automatic      COM Infrastructure      n/a*      RpcSs      Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
Automatic      UIGroup      n/a*      Themes      Themes
Automatic      LocalValidation      n/a*      SamSs      Security Accounts Manager
Automatic      PlugPlay      n/a*      PlugPlay      Plug and Play
Automatic      TDI      n/a*      AFD      AFD Networking Support Environment
Automatic      TDI      n/a*      Dhcp      DHCP Client
Automatic      TDI      n/a*      Dnscache      DNS Client
Automatic      TDI      n/a*      LmHosts      TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
Automatic      TDI      n/a*      WZCSVC      Wireless Zero Configuration
Automatic      ShellSvcGroup      n/a*      ShellHWDetection      Shell Hardware Detection
Automatic      SchedulerGroup      n/a*      Schedule      Task Scheduler
Automatic      SpoolerGroup      n/a*      Spooler      Print Spooler
Automatic      AudioGroup      n/a*      AudioSrv      Windows Audio
Automatic      NetworkProvider      n/a*      lanmanworkstation      Workstation
Automatic      NetworkProvider      n/a*      WebClient      WebClient
Automatic      Extended base      2      ParVdm      
Automatic      n/a*      n/a*      Browser      Computer Browser
Automatic      n/a*      n/a*      CryptSvc      Cryptographic Services
Automatic      n/a*      n/a*      ERSvc      Error Reporting Service
Automatic      n/a*      n/a*      helpsvc      Help and Support
Automatic      n/a*      n/a*      lanmanserver      Server
Automatic      n/a*      n/a*      NVSvc      NVIDIA Driver Helper Service
Automatic      n/a*      n/a*      PolicyAgent      IPSEC Services
Automatic      n/a*      n/a*      ProtectedStorage      Protected Storage
Automatic      n/a*      n/a*      seclogon      Secondary Logon
Automatic      Network*      n/a*      SENS      System Event Notification
Automatic      n/a*      n/a*      srservice      System Restore Service
Automatic      n/a*      n/a*      TrkWks      Distributed Link Tracking Client
Automatic      n/a*      n/a*      uploadmgr      Upload Manager
Automatic      *      n/a*      W32Time      Windows Time
Automatic      n/a*      n/a*      winmgmt      Windows Management Instrumentation
Automatic      n/a*      n/a*      wuauserv      Automatic Updates
This is a program called load order from Sysinternals Freeware shows want is loaded at boot in which order don't know just thought it might help.