Thanks, Mike

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"Mike M" wrote in message
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Note:
When booting from a Win Me boot floppy choose either option 2 or 3. The
ATTRIB command is not available when choosing option 4, minimal boot. If
4 is chosen then instead of
ATTRIB -S -R -H C:\_RESTORE
Annalee will need to type
C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ATTRIB -S -R -H C:\_RESTORE
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Noel Paton wrote:

Annalee
The IDE controller has absolutely NOTHING to do with System Restore.

The size of the _Restore folder will vary - between around 20MB in a
fresh install and 12% of the size of the C: partition
I suspect that what you saw with the firewall was simply Windows
AutoUpdater doing the job it was supposed to do - check the source of
the program it was trying to install.


I repeat - THERE WAS NO ACTIVE TROJAN IN SYSTEM RESTORE!!!!

Thre reason that you couldn't get the attrib command to work in DOS
was one of the following.

1) You were trying to run it from a DOS window - ATTRIB doesn't work
there, you have to run it from a DOS boot from floppy

2) you typed it wrong in some way.

follow these instructions, and see what happens

Boot to DOS, using your Win ME Startup Disk (if you don't have one
and can't make one from Start | Add/Remove Programs, then download a
diskmaker from www.bootdisk.com, and create the floppy by running the
file)
At the A:\ prompt, type the following commands (followed by [return])


ATTRIB -S -R -H C:\_RESTORE

REN C:\_RESTORE OLDREST


When the A:\ prompt returns, remove the floppy, and reboot the PC.
The Control Files will be rebuilt, and a Restore point should be
created.
Then delete the C:\OLDREST folder, and reboot again.

Finally adjust the space allocated to the restore folder