>thanks for the responses, I fixed the problem. I just got a hold of some boot disks and once I got on the computer I ran chkdsk and that fixed the problem. I definitely need to get an anti-virus! even though it may not have been the problem.
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>Thanks.
If you need a free one, I suggest this:
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/1/
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