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Try "Spyware search and destroy" to get rid of more spyware crap. Try a firewall (Tiny personal firewall, Zonealarm) to stop stuff from going in and going out unless you want it to. Install a virus-scanner to get rid of yet more crap.
Perhaps you should try programs like Norton Disk Dictor (part of the Norton Utilities suite), which might be able to repair your disk. Or they might make the problem worse... It's a double-edged sword at times.
Putting it in another PC might work (if the pc supports the new harddisk's size), as long as it can read the drive. Win9x/WinMe won't be able to read NTFS as it is.
Another possibility is a Linux live CD (Knoppix?), or one of the many help-on-a-cd images that are floating around the internet. They'll allow you to boot into an OS, and use that to investigate problems. It's not for the weak, though - you need more than average experience to solve problems that way.
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