Like Don mentioned, I would be very cautious in having an AV or other malware scanner modify a recovery partition. Its very possible to give you a false positive due to the very nature of what the partition does. Not saying its bad or not, but just a FYI. Did does it say was specifically corrupted?  ====================================== = SirTroth = ICQ: 1717439 = AIM/AOL: SirTrothX = YAHOO: SirTroth = MSN: SirTroth@xxxxxxxxxxx (don't emailme here) = SKYPE: SirTroth = XFIRE: SirTroth ======================================   On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:17:49 -0800, ML wrote: >welllllllllll for some reason scanning found some nasty stuff on D: >drive and removed it..???? I don't know if that is supposed to >happen, D: drive getting infected or not but it appeared to have >done so.??? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Wilcox">To: Sent: Monday, >November 27, 2006 3:06 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Recovery CDs >revisited >>>I would think that it was totally unnecessary to scan your recovery >partition unless you had reason to believe that some malware had >invaded your computer and accessed it.  It is not uncommon for >virus scanners to give false positives... especially if the >heuristics are set rather broad. >>Don >>----- Original Message ----- >From: "ML" >To: >Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 3:35 PM >Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Recovery CDs revisited >>>>I also have Compac--less than a year old. >>My AV says that recovery system on d drive which is where the >>recovery data >>is,is corrupt...??? Now I made a set of disks per instructions >>BEFORE it was ever scanned to find THAT out and have had to use >>them a time or two and >>everything came up ok? go figure that one.. I have used several >>otherAVs to >>scan the D: drive and not come up with currupt. Only Avast says >>so..Makes me kinda wonder who is what? >>>>-- >>>To unsub or change your email settings: >http://www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk[1] >>To access our Archives: >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/[2] >http://www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/[3] >>>-- >>>To unsub or changeyour email settings: >http://www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk[4] >>To access our Archives: >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/[5]>http://www.freelists.o rg/archives/pctechtalk/[6] --- Links --- 1 http://www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk 2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ 3 http://www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ 4 http://www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk 5 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ 6 http://www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: http://www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ http://www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/