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DVD drive - Master Boot virus?
Name: D_Orchard-Mannix Date: October 23, 2003 at 11:32:26 Pacific OS: Win 98 SE CPU/Ram: PIII 128MB RAM
Comment:
Recently my DVD drives have stopped being recognised by Windows. They work fine in Startup and from the Boot disk, so its not an IDE or Master/Slave problem. A friend of mine suggested it might be a virus in the master boot record, but i'm a bit weary of clearing the MBR. Any suggestions to clear the virus?
Name: hank Date: October 23, 2003 at 12:38:02 Pacific
Reply:
Your friend is mistaken. It has nothing to do with the MBR and I seriously doubt if it's a virus. Try disconnecting one drive at a time to see if one of them is defective.
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Response Number 2
Name: Josh1 Date: October 23, 2003 at 14:55:44 Pacific
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Try removing devices from device manager first and reboot.
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Response Number 3
Name: William McMinn Date: October 23, 2003 at 20:33:33 Pacific
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Rebuilding your boot sector is easy, start up with a Windows 98 boot disk and at the A: prompt type in 'fdisk /mbr' (no quotes) and press enter. That will get rid of any boot sector virus and won't do anything bad to any of your other data.
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