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Format and still a boot sector virus\
Name: Ryan Date: February 23, 2002 at 12:58:08 Pacific
Comment:
I have an older computer and I got a boot sector virus so I formated the hard drive using my bro's gateway dirver cd. When that was finished I went to install win98 and when it gets done preparing my comp for setup of 98 a messege flashes on my screen saying I have a boot sector virus how can this be I did a format. I need to figure this out please help me
Name: John Date: February 24, 2002 at 03:20:48 Pacific
Reply:
First do fdisk and delete the partition/s and then make a new one. Then do format.
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Response Number 3
Name: itmdtr Date: February 24, 2002 at 09:13:55 Pacific
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Don't know if this will work, Put boot disk in, choose "without CD rom support", at A:> prompt type " fdisk /mbr " (no quotes and dont forget the space) restart the comp. and then try to load Windows...
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Response Number 4
Name: wx Date: February 27, 2002 at 22:43:52 Pacific
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if this is from the bios/cmos antivirus warning, it may be a virus, or it can also be windows trying to write to the mbr. to be on the safe side get the hard drive manufacturers zero write program,known as low level format utility from their site, and run it. it will write zeroes to the entire drive then fdisk/format etc.
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Response Number 5
Name: James Date: April 18, 2002 at 08:13:51 Pacific
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I came across the same problem. Flash the BIOS then try repartitioning and reformatting your HARD DRIVE.
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Response Number 6
Name: esu (by Raj) Date: April 30, 2002 at 15:01:05 Pacific
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Don't use the "Fdisk /mbr" command. The boot sector of the hard drive is where io.sys, msods.sys, command.com and some other files are stored for booting. If a virus in the boot sector may occour, I recommend using a Emergency Anti- Viruse boot disk (Pc-Cillin 2000 Boot Disks recommended.) If that doesn't work, you'll have to re-format you're hard drive, thus formating you're boot sector.
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Response Number 7
Name: Alavifar Date: June 12, 2002 at 11:32:48 Pacific
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