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Hi Everyone,
I hope you can help with this.
My friend called and said he had a Master Boot Record virus. He siad that he had some problems with the PC (locking up, Could not see CD drive and also in device manager there were ! exclamtion marks next to the hard disk drive/controller) he thought this was a problem with the IDE port so installed the drive on he's second PC (Windows2000) The drive came up with some errors so he went into bios and virus checked the disk. It said he had a MBR virus so he FDisk the drive (this did not get rid of the virus)
Is ther any way that this virus can be removed.
Please help
Sanjya
Forgot to mention that tried fdisk /mbr and it did not work.
If I put this drive in my other puter as slave will this virus be detected/deleted by Norton antivirus 2002 ?
Regards
DB7
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Go to my site: http://boomspeed.com/dodgecharger
and click on the Low-Level Formatting instructions.
From there, print the instructions on how to low level format your hard drive, and follow them.
This should work for sure.
Good Luck
Charger
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http://www.google.com
enter search string
ibm wipe
download wipe
extract file
copy to flopy
boot to doss
type wipe 0
hit y
will write 0's to entire drive everything (EVERYTHING) is now deleted and gone with no chace of recovery but same with the mbr virus gone by by
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When you boot to a floppy disk to run fdisk /mbr make sure it is write protected before you use it on the infected machine. Also when formatting a hard drive correct me if I am wrong, Use the /U switch (format C: /U) the old boot sector will be erased. Where as a fast format will not.
Buster
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hi all,
I got the same problem. when i run fdisk the filesystem is UNKNOWN so when i make a new partition and format it windows can't be installed although after using the IBM wipe program it did reconice it as FAT32 but still windows gives me (inside the setup program) the SU-0013 alert wich stands for unreconisable file system, but when i use another HD (wich works good) and try to format the "broke" Harddisk in windows my windows crashes. can i really trow this disk into the garbagecan ? please help me guys ( it's weird that he keeps asking to overwrite bootsector everytime when i reboot and the "broke" disk is set as 2nd Hard disk, and that when i say not to he asks me again, but i'm affrait he'll overwrite the good Harddisk and put the virus on there)
PLEASE HELP !!!!
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