What's going on????

geek 0001

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I need help, my friend has emachines 130 (about five years old) with a maxtor 20 gig hard drive which had four bad sectors that had corrupted.and wouldn't boot because pci.sys corrupt but I copied that my pc and it worked. However I'm now in much deeper water and I have theree main problems:

- The start bar refuses to show all the recent applications.
- Control panel will not switch to classic view (not a security thing because I have recently rebuilt it)
- F secure is gone from the taskbar but I'm still bieng told it's out of date by window security centre.

Is this the hard drive playing up or a virus?
 
If the drive has any problems with it to begin with, I suspect they caused more problems. Find some low level format utility and try to format the drive that way, then reload windows. A LLF will usually clear up a few bad sectors if the drive isn't too bad...
 
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