How can I scan NTFS drive from Norton CD?

[spaceturnip]

My story:
- I dual boot Win98 (C and Win2K Pro (D;
- I suspect my D: drive is infected;
- I buy NAV2002 (System Works);
- I try to install;
- Dialog appears, tells me not to install yet if I suspect I'm infected, but to boot from the CD & run NAVDX;
- I reboot from the CD & run NAVDX ...

... but it boots W98 & can't access my D: drive - where I suspect the infection is - 'cuz it's NTFS!! So how can I clean up my D: drive??

Ideas appreciated.

 

[yizhar]

HI.

There are several possible solutions:

* Best solution - if you suspect the NTFS partition, install a new W2K system on the clean FAT32 drive or on another HD, install AV on it, then use it to clean the infected partition.

* Install an NTFS driver on the 98.

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfswin98.shtml

The free version will give you read only to scan but not fix the NTFS files.

Bye
Yizhar Hurwitz

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[spaceturnip]

Thanks for your suggestions, Yizhar ... but do I need to point out (to Symantec, if by any chance they read these) how totally unreasonable they are?

#1 requires that I spend hours partitioning, formatting, installing ... #2 requires that I spend another $50 to get this $50 software to work.

I think my real solution will be: I'm due for a reformat & reinstall anyway (just got XP) ... But why can't the goddamn software just work out of the box as advertised???

Very disappointed ...