[JohnFL]

I have a question..... Does the desktop have any data on it, that is worth the time and effort to try to save?

If not, then you would probably be best to just pop in your OS disk, and format the drive and re-install the OS.

If on the other hand you have data on that machine that you just have to have, then as I see it, you have only three choices.

You can go to the trouble of using your laptop and downloading something like ERD Commander or Ultimate Boot CD. Both of these programs can be downloaded from the internet, but require you to slipstream an anti virus program, and then make it into a bootable CD.

Or a much easier choice would be to find someone who has a desk top machine that you could put your bad drive in, and try to run a anti virus program from it.

Or... and this might be your best bet. See if you can find a small 40 gig drive that a friend might have laying around, and put it into your desk top as the main boot drive. Then put an OS on it, and install an anti virus program on it, and make your bad drive the "D:" drive and go about it that way.

It all depends on how important the data that you have on that drive is.

On another note, if your running McAfee, do yourself a favor and get rid of it. McAfee a long time ago used to be a good anti virus program.... just like Norton used to be a good one. Both of them now make any machine a very slow machine. Spend about 9 or 10 dollars, and go to Ebay and buy something like Kaspersky anti virus. Your machine will end up running MUCH faster, and you will still get updates many times each day.