One question - can the files be moved?
Failing the LBA fix - deleting in DOS ( booting with a start up disk) is fast
It helps if all the files are in the one folder -especially with the weird name
no was first thing tried was to move to a safe location...and at last contact with him was spreading to other folders...i had d/l one of the files to my box and was able to delete it from mine...ran every scanner known and was clean
i am starting to lean to the promise card and poss a via chipset...but have been unable to contact him to try forensic suite to try to repair the MBR with. he was trying to burn 100 gigs to cd to save so he is busy
thanks for the input