Originally Posted by
JarJar
I got all my files off onto the new external drive, but It's not because the CD's I burned worked. When I was trying to use the second one, puppylinux, the CD drive didn't seem to work. So I stuck in the PE Cd because at least it made the CD drive spin. Then when it started spinning, I ejected it and put the puppy CD in and that actually helped it load. But all the default settings got me to a point where it said I had to type some stuff to re-run the video wizard. Same problem, nothing legible on the screen for me to click on. (Side note: after taking apart some of the inards awhile back - too confusing to explain right now, but wasn't sure everything got put back together right and in safe mode the white parts of the desktop are always green - so I wasn't surprised there was something goofy with the graphics or whatever.) So somewhere in there as I was trading CD's back and forth a different screen came up and told me I wasn't finished loading windows, etc. I turned off the computer and turned it back on and wasn't paying attention and it starting loading the normal way. Not sure how because remember it was set to boot from the CD drive. (Maybe because the CD drive was acting so sluggish it by-passed it???) But anyway, it recognized my external drive and I starting pulling things over there and now I have all but the stuff on C like programs all on the external. I cleaned off C actually, didn't just copy. I was WAY full. So I ran a thorough scan with avast just on the WIndows folder cuz I thought there was a worm because that on-line scanner thing supposedly found one there and nothing. So what do I do now?