[pchelpers] Re: Very strange

PcCowboy wrote:
> Yes I do that.
> But I only do it as a last resort.
> I would have to carry the drive home and then back to work again.
> I did that once a long time ago and when I fire up the scanning
> computer it wanted to know if I wanted to format the new drive.
> The drive no longer had anything on it. Not even my file recovery programs
> could find anything.
>
> So now I'm very careful about doing that. LOL
>
> Pc
>
>   
That could occur if the scanning machine had something like Win 98 and 
the infected one had an NTFS partition. Older versions of Windows cannot 
recognize NTFS. Are you certain the scanning system could have handled that?

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