Hello out there:

I have a computer with Asus 7v Mother board, Phoenix bios two Maxtor HDD and one floppy and two Lite-on CD drives one a LTN-526s CD-Rom, and the other LTR-1210B CDRW. My OS is Windows 2000 Professional.

During the course of events I accidentally did not activate Zone Alarm while I activated my net connections. I noticed a lot of activity on my modem data lights when I knew there should not have been any action on it, However it took quite some time for this to dawn on my poor overworked brain.

I turned off my modem and immediately shut down my computer, waited about a MINUTE and restarted. After that I noticed little things here and there that I thought were a little funny. However the main thing I noticed is I could not load my Microsoft Train Simulator program any more.
I checked to see if my CD was working for Audio and it was, but when I tried to access it from
My Computer a dialog box popped up with d:\ is not accessible and below that was Incorrect function. I also tried my floppy and my CDRW drive with the same result. I scanned my HDD with an Antivirus program and it found a trojan and a worm which it isolated. Then I backed up my HDD and used Fdisk reformatted and reinstalled a clean copy of Windows 2000.

When I restarted the computer I had the exact same problem with the same drives. Thanks to your SITE I was browsing through this forum and information on one of your posts clicked. I checked the properties of all three drives and the pie diagram shows them to be completely full even though I had nothing in them!!

Does anyone on this forum know how to remedy this? I really would like to play my Train Simulator.

Thanks in advance for any helpare u sure when u backed up ur hdd, the hdd u used as a backup was not infected also?

and also, if u suspect that u have a virus of some sort, it is NEVER a good idea to restart ur computer, because thats when the virus installs itself. u should do a virus scan first before restarting.Homer thanks for the quick reply.

I did not write in my sequence of events that I had used a virus checker and when it found the trojan and the worm it sent them to quarantine.

You are definitely right about not restarting before checking (I understand that both Windows 2000 PRO and XP/pro are replicating OS's that when you restart the virus can attach itself to another file and return back into your computer)

UPDATE:?

Halleujah I think I have found it! I had originally loaded INcd version 3.0 from the Nero DISK and on a hunch I used add/remove programs from the CP and low and behold my Floppy started to read, and when I looked at properties, it had the correct pie diagram and LISTED the correct number of bytes used in the floppy. I went on and checked the properties of the CD-rom and the CDRW and they were correct also. I then used a program CD with autorun and it did that.

Thanks again for your help. Do you think there is any way for me to use INcd without this problem?

Just to see, I reinstalled INcd and the same thing happened.

I never install InCD on any machine, but i don't use CDRW's either, so no need for something like that.

I ama impressed that you sorted this out, though. Good job.kudos

lol i dont even know what incd isInCD is the portion of Nero that allows you to directly write to a CDRW disc and treat it like a big floppy.ic, thanx