my computer started booting with these screwed up symbols the other day on the screen where you press f2 to enter your bios. the symbols were @, arrow symbols, male and female symbols, and some capital letters. As you could imagine I started freaking out. So I went crazy and wiped my hard drive to zero. then I installed norton. All I wanted to do with norton was check for viruses. Well my dad was ******* around on my computer when I wasn't around and did an optimize on my external drive that I didn't want anyone ******* with. Well the point to all of this is that I stopped the optimization when it was at 12% now the three of my favorite movies I had saved on my external drive are all fucked up. And no norton is not running in the background. nothing is running in the background. But my movies play back like all of the ram on my whole computer is being used. The audio is no longer in sync with the video, It skips horribly, is there anything I can do to salvage my favorite videos or do i need to refomat to get rid of any trace of the evil ******* program called norton.